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And most of the worlds biggest atrocities has also been done on "the shining path to the better future".
by type0 5y ago
And most of the worlds biggest atrocities has also been done on "the shining path to the better future".
- nine_k 5y agoExactly my reference :(
- andrepd 5y agoSo have the world's biggest advances, from the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, or the advent of liberal democracies in the past ~200 years.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThis crowd seems to be pretty much against enlightenment values or science or democracy.
- thu2111 5y agoNone of those things were really the result of some top down utopian master plan, though. The closest might be the enlightenment if you consider the rewards for book finding granted by wealthy benefactors, but it was fundamentally a backward looking "Revolution" that was based on worship of the ancients. The "scientific revolution", is not really a well known or unambiguous label, the growth of science being a long term trend. And it's worth observing that a major part of the present day corruption of science with the replication crisis, the junk sociological sciences and so on, are the result of an explicit top down utopian plan by governments to make a better tomorrow by funding academics.