Modern society seems to have lost its taste for consensus, its appreciation of shared values. If a couple of decades ago there was a drive for democracy in what we today call the "young democracies", and a craving for a market economy and a modern civilizational choice, now that's all mostly gone. But a similar process is going on in the older and
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Good, It's about time.
Edit to elaborate:
Prominent authorities in the media and academia have been telling us for years that the "common truth" you speak of was a lie and that "the enlightenment' itself was a bill of goods forced on us by Bourgeoisie Western Patriarchs (dead white guys). "Judgement" and "Discrimination" themselves have become dirty words.
Under such circumstances is anyone really surprised to see that the "common truth" has been forsaken in favor of ideology?
That said, I find that I am cautiously optimistic because I suspect that Kipling's old Gods are about to reassert their influence.
Edited again..:
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew ( ... )
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Says the guy who regularly cites Friedman.
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What's your point?
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More to the point, what does Libertarianism being an ideology, or quoting Friedman, have to do with my statement above?
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The true novelty these days is that now, we can actually look back through the one-way mirror and check out the zillions of microcosms all around us that we used to believe - or pretend - didn't exist at all. All the other bullhorns that we don't like, that we wish would stop. They were always there in minds all around us; now they have records in search engines to mark their existence as well.
This is not enlightenment, in any version. It's just a new form of entertainment.
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I wonder if that's what we are seeing here. Certain ideological groups have gotten used to being able to control the mainstream narrative, and are freaking out now that their control is no longer complete.
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You make social justice sound almost as if it's a dirty word.
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The implication in this statement would be that the conspiracy theorists are themselves in a...wait for it...vast, sinister, meta-conspiracy! How evil.
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