• GenXen [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    What are enlightenment liberals? Kind of an oxymoron IMO. Also, all liberals think that they are enlightened.

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      1 year ago

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      • GenXen [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Oh I see. I guess we can't just call them 'classical' liberals, because that term and concept has been bastardized by people like Dave Rubin, who have never actually studied any of the works created during the enlightenment period.

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          1 year ago

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          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Dave Rubin used to be on :michael-laugh: 's Freak Beat.

            Gay liberal TYT employee turned reactionary, was frequently lumped into conversation with those "The Intellectual Dark Web" losers like Sam Harris and Brett Weinstein though all of those guys except Peterson have kind of fallen off the radar.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJhqjpyMp_Y

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              2 years ago

              My brain is still in recovery mode from taking in so many high-level, important ideas

      • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I think that was sort of the point of "High Soviet" Socialist Realism, and pushes towards cultural revolution in other Socialist projects at the same time; but then weird shit happened in the late 60's that globally proliferated a sense of generalized nihilism. Least that's what I think. 🤔