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In the spirit of unapologetic bothsidesism, I think it's intellectual malpractice to set yourself up as a defender of "enlightenment values" if all you do by way of practice is obsess over culture war stuff and run gotcha own-the-sjws special ops missions.
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I'm very interested in hearing from people who have opinions shaped by active participation in science, philosophy, art, foundations of logic etc. *outside* of culture war stuff. If you do none of that, bozobit gets flipped. Riding the cred of work done 20y ago is almost as bad.
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As someone who believes himself to be a member of the set you describe, I think history has shown the Enlightenment project to have failed unequivocally. It would be better termed "the endarkenment" and surpassed by more historically continuous approaches to ethics & metaphysics.
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