The Lighthouse: The Straight Red Line (5): links to Islam and Self-Loathing
"The touching words quoted yesterday (here in entirety) were uttered by the Subjectivist champion of the Collectivist Counter-Enlightenment movement: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). I regret to say we have no winner of Hicks' groundbreaking tome 'Explaining Postmodernism'.
Rousseau set the tone of the premise of mankind basically being good but corrupted by his environment, that we have come to know so well in Left Liberal thinking. In Rousseau's vision the world's trouble is caused by Reason and its fruits, knowledge and science. He's often quoted as a philosopher of the Enlightenment, but it is quite clear he rebelled against all the tenets of individual Liberalism, Reason, secularism and limited government.
In Rousseau we find the very source of our trouble with Postmodernism, but also the answer to many a vexed question:
- 'why does the Left ally itself with Radical Islam against the permissive Liberal society that is of their own making and of which they are the prime beneficiary?', and ..."
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