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Anyone know anything about Dark Enlightenment philosophy?
On one hand I think they're on the extreme side of reactionary, but at the same time they do make some good points about how modern progressive/consumerist society over - values material ease and convenience over virtuous character - except they blame the Enlightenment itself, while I'd say the main problem is the over-reliance on material convenience that's followed the economic boom in the West after WWII, and the digital age.
Even Marx made some good points about negative social effects of industrialization, even though his communist ideology is more or less bunk.
Just as a random example - The Middle East treat women like pets, the West treats women like pieces of meat. If we could find a way of bringing back the virtuous character of the 1950s minus the anti-merit discriminatory issues affecting groups like blacks, women, etc - I think we'd have a more virtuous society than pre-Enlightnment hierarchies or modern consumerism - we'd have the best of both worlds.
On one hand I think they're on the extreme side of reactionary, but at the same time they do make some good points about how modern progressive/consumerist society over - values material ease and convenience over virtuous character - except they blame the Enlightenment itself, while I'd say the main problem is the over-reliance on material convenience that's followed the economic boom in the West after WWII, and the digital age.
Even Marx made some good points about negative social effects of industrialization, even though his communist ideology is more or less bunk.
Just as a random example - The Middle East treat women like pets, the West treats women like pieces of meat. If we could find a way of bringing back the virtuous character of the 1950s minus the anti-merit discriminatory issues affecting groups like blacks, women, etc - I think we'd have a more virtuous society than pre-Enlightnment hierarchies or modern consumerism - we'd have the best of both worlds.