Posted: Feb 13, 2018 11:49 pm
willhud9 wrote:If there’s anything the Enlightenment thinkers had in common, it was an insistence that we energetically apply the standard of reason to understanding our world, and not fall back on generators of delusion like faith, dogma, revelation, authority, charisma, mysticism, divination, visions, gut feelings or the hermeneutic parsing of sacred texts.
This is a massive error on Pinker's part IMO. There need be more authority IMO especially regarding central issues. Anarchy (ie. free market selfish capitalism (which implies greed/selfishness is an inherently good thing, never mind the rest of the externalities)) is clearly wrong as is not authoritatively stating there is no hell nor that God will take care of our problems (ie. allowing theistic perspectives to go unchallenged/undenounced by "authority"). The list goes on but basically liberalism = anarchy = chaos = damaging bedlam. Children children everywhere, they act as if we shouldn't care.