Harvard Scientist Admits Age of Enlightenment is Over

>>114489
America is regsining it's sense, and forming a new coalition for good.

Europe has some dark times ahead. They may have to expel Muslims.

As America watches the consequences of hyper-leftism in other countries, it will be a helpful reminder of what values maatter.

>>114492
>America is regaining*

Yeah this not surprising, I kinda thought this was common knowledge inside academia anyway. My professors have been railing against the enlightenment and modernism since i got to grad school...

>>114489
You know, without reason you'll just end up killing each other off.

>>114489
>Harvard Scientist

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." — Harvard biologist George Wald, 1970

>>114546
PDJT must have heard that quote.

>>114546
But action was taken. And now it's being reversed.

>>114546
>1970
And the EPA as formed as a response, so what's your point; that all research that doesn't go into war and space is a waste of time and money?

The choice of 'admits' is bizarre. It should really be 'thinks'

>>114489
>It's not enlightenment if I don't agree with it!

>>114489
Why does /pol/ think a monarchy will be any better then a democracy? If anything, you're amplifying both the strengths and weaknesses of democracy since monarchies/dictatorships are more susceptible to the whims of individuals. Unlike democracies however, you get a huge shit like Kim Jung in, there's really nothing you can do to peacefully address it.

>Empathy shall be replaced by justice
>tolerance by competition
>peace by war

What world were these people living in prior to Trump?

So it's the age of pussies, who think with their feelings and assualt anyone who disagrees. Why can't we just have both logic and feelings?

>>114492
>can't even spell words correctly
>"regsining" it's sense
hmm...

>>114687
Because the pussies are the ones holding political power right now
>maybe we shouldn't murder all of the non-white males
>REEEEEEEEEEEEE VIRTUE SIGNALLING SOCIALIST CUCK MAGA MAGA MAGA

>>114691
>virtue signaling
That's got to be one of the most meaningless, fedoracore phrases ever invented by the internet.

>>114489
Orwell has an interesting article about mein kampf where he posits that the Hitler have the people suffering above all else and for that he was wildly popular. Perhaps that's the youngsters want nowadays too. In our rush to coddle those who are in their teens or younger, we may have introduced a nihilistic ennui which made them yearn for darker times.

If this is what you want, anons, you will get it. You may not know what it is to suffer... but you'll find out soon enough.

>>114700
"fedoracore"....you should be beat in the face for propagating this nerdy neologism

>>114709
Hitler is bigger than Jesus Christ because he mitigated suffering you fucking gross little echo chamber...read more truth and less propaganda cretin

>>114716
He mitigated suffering...? How? He offered the world war. He gave the world the most suffering that it had seen since the first World War and he gave Europe more suffering than it had seen since.

You call me an echo chamber... yet alt-right boards like /r/the_donald are literal echo chambers where dissent is illegal. In /pol/, they echo each other by presenting fake questions intended to trigger one another. They ramp themselves up into a fever pitch, seeking anger, hate and rage, inventing wild conspiracy theories just to keep the memes flowing.

Another thing... on the /natsoc/ threads they literally devote themselves to creating propaganda...

I'm sorry. But I trust great writers and philosophers above the meme kids on /pol/. Even Nietzche admitted he would not have existed without his so-called "slave morality..."

>>114489
Strong AI better take over before humans screw this up

We're being ruled by retards, it's fitting they are represented by a retard president.

>>114546
>Scientists make prediction about current trends.
>People step up and fix the issue instead of letting it continue.
>Scientist was wrong.

>>114721
We'll all be annihilate in nuclear fire long before that happens.

doesnt the left actually want this?
dont they want to get rid of western culture and all its values.

>>114786
The enlightenment grew out of the left, so no.

There's a lot of idiots on both sides who see rationality, critical thought, science and result based decision making as a threat, namely the authoritarian or identity politics wings of these movements. Critical thinking usually has a moderating influence, and facts get in the way of feelings/outrage culture after all.

But then, there's a lot of conservatives and liberals who champion different schools of enlightenment ideals, so I don't really see anti-intellectualism as a partisan issue.

>>114489
The reason why western culture is good, and why it needs to be protected from backwards religious extremists from the middle east is enlightenment. Just because the west has gotten irresponsible with immigration in the last few years doesn't mean a philosophy that has served us for centuries should be abandoned. If you'd rather be a peasant with no natural rights than you should welcome the fall of western culture.

>>114790
>There's a lot of idiots on both sides who see rationality, critical thought, science and result based decision making as a threat, namely the authoritarian or identity politics wings of these movements,*.

*as bad.

>>114793
>The reason why western culture is good, and why it needs to be protected from backwards religious extremists from the middle east is enlightenment.

But anon, who is there to protect us from the backwards religious extremists at home? After all, our dear leader needs their vote!

>>114489
>>114596
>>114790
>>114793

The question is not whether rationality is useful or a threat. The enlightenment basically says that rationality can and should overcome any and all natural obstacles (one good example is that rationality should rise above religious impulses in humans, this has only lead to materialism and nihilism. Or that people will together rationally craft better ways of governance than a traditional monarchy, say hello to corruption and democracy). We've had a good run but looks like biology has caught up with us.
Enlightenment for the human race basically meant that we could grow into any direction. And all obstacles in the way of such growth threaten us with regression somehow. Now people are seeing that any direction is not a valid way to grow, we need borders and guidance in the form of transcendent authority, something not reducible to human mind and therefore not manipulable by the human mind.
In essence, we are returning to spirituality. And it's about time.

>>114802
Oh goody a religion fag

>>114815
The rejection of God is far worse than any Christian religion. You'll understand as you get older.

>>114786
Perhaps in your paranoid little mind they do, but not in objective reality.

>>114821
That is 100% what they want.

Also they lie 100% of the time. Even to themselves.

>>114822
The Enlightenment and Whig historiography (progressivism) are the breakdown of traditional western culture. The idea of the dark enlightenment is to point out that the everything growing out of these two are either the left or the left in disguise.

>>114828
Weak

>>114818
doesn't the understanding of moral oughtness supersede the necessity for a higher being?

>>114831
Maybe. But that's irrelevant to the discussion.

The leftist movement rejects the very notion of morality.

>>114831
For many of us, morality comes natural. This is not the cause for most.

Our morality comes from our culture. In the west what we've got is a mix of Christianity and western philosophy (like plato)

Some of these values are biblical, some are rational.

You start tearing down these cultural values, our basic understanding of morality begins to fade.

Just look at our culture right now. Lies and corruption EVERYWHERE.

It was better when people believed in God.

I was raised athiest btw.

>>114829
Do you have an argument, or are you just flinging shit because you can't do any better?
>>114831
Moral oughtness is suprarational. Therefore it cannot be arrested by man through the means of intellectual manipulation. We can only perceive it, not generate and modify it at will. Therefore it is in a sense outside of us and/or the property of a higher being/force.

>>114837
>Do you have an argument, or are you just flinging shit because you can't do any better?
That was my opinion of your post. Are you ok?

Youre too soft on them


>The Enlightenment and Whig historiography (progressivism) are the breakdown of traditional western culture.
The deliberate destruction of the west.
The idea of the dark enlightenment is to point out that the everything growing out of these two are either the left or the left in disguise.
They're just just "the left in disguise" its the total destruction of our country in disguise.

Ftfy

>>114839
>The Enlightenment and Whig historiography (progressivism) are the breakdown of traditional western culture.
The deliberate destruction of the west.
>The idea of the dark enlightenment is to point out that the everything growing out of these two are either the left or the left in disguise.
They're not just "the left in disguise" its the total destruction of our country in disguise.

Ftfm

>>114839
>Youre too soft on them
Maybe so. But the choice of words, or softness, can mean the difference between being ignored and being listened to. People choke on redpills too.

>The deliberate destruction of the west.
>They're not just "the left in disguise" its the total destruction of our country in disguise.
If it's deliberate, who instigated it in the first place?

>>114852
The left calls the right "racist, sexist, evil"

The right calls the left "liberal"

This is a problem. We cannot even call them what they are, let alone fight fire with fire.

>This outright denial of what the left is allows them to act without question.
who instigated it in the first place?

Can you handle the truth?

The problem is lack of smart people. It is literally impossible for an intelligent person to believe in dumb shit like God.

It's like in the movie Idiocracy. Smart people build the foundation of civilizations. Once those foundations are there, it's easy for extremely stupid, yet extremely aggressive people to move into leadership positions. Just look at Dumb Donald, our President.

It's really the Iron Law of Oligarchy and Bureaucracy in action. Peter Principle too. Plus the US has developed an entrenched Aristocracy, Dumb Donald is a member, where merit accounts for shit.

>>114835
>Lies and corruption EVERYWHERE
This is nothing new from what I understand, human beings lie, wage war, commit genocide, and jay walk naturally and there is nothing in history to say we are changed from doing these things in any noticeable way.

>It was better when people believed in God.
I don't believe people are any more or less moral beings compared to any other point in human civilization.


>We can only perceive it, not generate and modify it at will...Therefore it is in a sense outside of us and/or the property of a higher being/force.

I don't think this follows. Even if Moral oughtness can't be modified or created, but just exists, what makes it outside of human beings? I can't change the fact that I get horny when I see pictures of Bruce Campbell's chin but that doesn't make it the will of The force or Satan or something.

And if its outside of rational thought then how can you attributte these qualities to it?

and this isn't an image board?

>>114700
There's been some rabid /pol/tard brandishing it as if it's some kind of weapon against... fucking something, I don't know man

Virtue signalling has always been on that list of logical fallacies, but people seem to have worked out that if you scream it at your opponent they don't really have a way to prove that they aren't, so it "wins" arguments

People will work out how to deal with being told they are virtue signalling soon enough, then retards will stop resorting to yelling it at every opportunity, and then /pol/-kun will move on to the next logical fallacy that he can jump at, in his endless quest for shallow intellectualism

>>114857
>Can you handle the truth?
Go ahead, what the left is?
I think it's the remnants of egalitarianism and matriarchal thinking, from our prehistoric tribal past. It seems to always lift it's head when civilization is doing well and people get weak and complacent.

>>114718
Hitler didn't offer the world war, he offered nationalistic pride and a scapegoat to downtrodden people

Lebensraum was theirs by right, the it was not an act of war to annex the rhineland, and if you remember Austria voted to join Germany

The European war was the consequence of his expansionism, not anyone's goal

>>114859
>It is literally impossible for an intelligent person to believe in dumb shit like eternal principles, objective truth and phenomenon above human perception and rationality.
Sure m8

>Smart people build the foundation of civilizations. Once those foundations are there, it's easy for extremely stupid, yet extremely aggressive people to move into leadership positions. Just look at Dumb Donald, our President.
One just has to stop and wonder who those stupid people would be.
Also calling Trump dumb is a pretty bold move. He just became the POTUS without any proper political ties, the both varieties of msm shitting on him all the way through.

>>114866
Dumb Donald became President because the media thought giving him publicity would do nothing. Little did they know that dumb people will vote if a hat tells them to.

>>114864
Human nature has something to do with it, for sure.

The west has basically been a Christian based culture. Christianity absorbed a lot of western values, so it's not necessarily a religious culture.

Within this culture, there have always existed outsiders, immigrants, "anti-Christians." That is, a minority of people with values that oppose ours. They work to consolidate power and warp their hosts country to suit their desires.

This consolidation of power and subversion eventually corrupts a society so much that it falls. See: rome and basically every country that had a revolution.

Tl;dr its the jews

>>114867
>they won because they're TOO STUPID

Ahahahahah

>>114860
>Even if Moral oughtness can't be modified or created, but just exists, what makes it outside of human beings?
If we can manipulate it, if it's below us. We can't, if it's above us. Therefore it's above us.

>And if its outside of rational thought then how can you attributte these qualities to it?
I really can't. It's a phenomenologically apprehended, not rationally. But I can point towards what is beyond us. This is what symbols such as "The force or Satan or something." are for.

>>114865

Here's what the neo-fascists won't tell you about Hitler. His economic miracle was built on sand. Going to war was always the end point because there was no other option. It was either that or back to Depression era civilization.

Socialism is the only good solution. NAZI literally means National Socialism. The problem with Hitler, however, is he didn't want to do the hard work required to build up a national economy. Instead, he propped up the state with military spending, much like what Reagan did. It can work, but only short term, and it's really difficult to continue the war hunger for decades and decades. In the book 1984, Orwell tried to depict a state that could continue the bullshit war hunger indefinitely.

The problem is if you don't actually go to war at some point, people stop giving a shit. The funding dries up. The deficit spending dries up. So you're forced to wage bullshit war. Look at W and Hitler. Now maybe Trump.

>>114868
>its the jews
Goddamn it, I saw that coming a mile away. Hi fellow /pol/ack.

>Within this culture, there have always existed outsiders, immigrants, "anti-Christians." That is, a minority of people with values that oppose ours. They work to consolidate power and warp their hosts country to suit their desires.
>This consolidation of power and subversion eventually corrupts a society so much that it falls. See: rome and basically every country that had a revolution.
This is true, to the extent that the corroding forces are given space in which to operate. In a strong, virile culture there's no such space. Therefore they can only strike when the host falls docile etc.
Here's the punchline: What encouraged the west to create the most tightly knit, effective societies?
The threat of corroding elements.. It works both ways, you see.

>>114872
"Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war."

"Above all, Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism — born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put a man in front of himself in the alternative of life and death."

"War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in peace."

"For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; any renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But Empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice."

"We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken."

"War is the normal state of the people."

“It is absurd to believe in the possibility of peace...Fascist education must be education for battle. Fascism believes in sanctity and heroism.”

>>114828
>>114822
Damn dude, go outside and hike or something, you sound almost schizophrenic.

>>114873
It seems life on Earth is a never ending cycle.

Pretty good time to be alive, relatively speaking.

>>114882
Pro-tip: not the same person. l2r thqh fam

>>114872
I'd like to correct you. Socialism is the only good option given the current state of affairs. I can't see that fact changing without a major catastrophe that makes law enforcement and global communication impossible.

>>114880
Something fucked up must have happened to him in his formative years.

>>114891
>l2r thqh fam

What?

>>114895
Childhood abuse, WWI, and failure/the Great Depression happened.

>>114894
One of the big problems facing us is that the capitalism that had once served us so well and uplifted us all is failing. The whole equation of "labor works capital to produce commodities or services, labor gets wages, labor spends money on commodities, everyone is better off" is breaking down because labor is increasingly being minimized. US style capitalism only works when most people are making a reasonable wage. Because capital no longer needs that much labor to produce goods or services due to technological advances, the pool of good jobs is shrinking. Under the current capitalistic system, that means less money being spread around and more being shunted to the top (hence current income disparity). What happens when, for instances, you only need to employ 20% of the population to service/produce everything? What happens when only 20% of people are receiving enough wages to purchase necessities? These are questions for the future, but I doubt our current economic model will work. Because the forces at the top are really making bank on the way things are now though, they'll continue to propagate the system until the system can no longer support their weight (and then probably attempt to flee to their havens once things start to crash down).

>>114896
Lurk more, faggot.

>>114489
When people fall through the cracks of mainstream society, a side of it is revealed to them that they never knew existed, they see all the lies upon which the accepted reality was built. The deeper you fall, the more is revealed and far below the sewers of what we were raised to believe in there is one pit where these fallen ones tend to end up. It's a revelation and once you're there, you never leave. You cannot unsee it. This is where the matrix analogy comes from. It was called the "dark enlightenment" before that.

It would have happened to everyone eventually. Trump just accelerated the process, or more accurately, the accepted reality's reaction to Trump accelerated it. Cracks in the facade widened, many fell.

I like the term Alt-Right to describe this intellectual plane specifically because it's vague. The white nationalists think they're at the bottom of this deep dark well but they are not, there are still lies upon which their faith is built. Namely, that there is some certain genetic range of whiteness which unites us. But who is US and who is THEM is far more instinctual than that and deep down we all know it.

In reality we could be anyone. Black, white, brown, yellow, male, female, gay, straight. You could be sitting next to one of us on the bus, at work, or even in your own home and you would never know it. This is so important for you to understand. We see both sides of accepted reality while you see only the facade. This means we can imitate you but you cannot imitate us. Our tactical advantages are infinite because we don't rely on secrecy, we rely on anti-secrecy. We are anti-fragile. We cannot lose.

One last thing, alt-right is not entirely descriptive. We are not left or right. We come from beneath. We are the truth you thought you had buried and we're finally returning to the surface.

>>114718
to live is the worst suffering one can experience. hitler did those 6000000000 jews a favor by killing them

>>114913
Ow, i cringed so hard my jaw popped.

>>114919
gud argumend friend 10/10

>>114489
>Empathy shall be replaced by justice, tolerance by competition and conquest,

What has empathy got to do with intellectualism? Or tolerance for that matter? They are pretty much the definition of 'muh feels', not reason.

>>114489
>Empathy shall be replaced by justice
This is what self-righteous psychopaths do.
So your future is a bunch of psychopaths running around killing people?
And you're good with this?

>>114940
>>114943
Empathy and mercy is seen as a moral weakness that can obscure an individual from acting. In fascism, you do not prioritize feeling or thinking, but acting. Only feelings that are tied to outward action should be allowed.

>>114943
thoughtless empathy is cancer.

well this is the reason i hope he does ban weed nationwide and i hope the courts don't block any of his efforts toward making the working class less financially secure.

the sooner the average american feels the effects of policy driven by alternative facts, anti-intellectualism, and a general disdain for science, then perhaps the sooner the electorate will reevaluate its priorities regarding a post-fact world.

If it's got to be this way, let's get over this phase as soon as possible so hopefully we can mitigate some of the longer-term risks.

>>114960
You're naive. They'll just find a way to blame liberals if they fuck up, and their voting base will believe them.

>>114949
Look mercy is tied to an outward action though? There is no such thing as internal mercy. It requires the giver and the one who receives

You can't really be saying that Fascism prioritizes action without thought otherwise it would be directionless and ineffective. You could say it prioritizes thought and empathy towards the nation and certain subclass of citizens within the nation.

>>114957
I agree, which is why we should always be selflessly compassionate rather than empathetic.
Compassion is a cold and logical appreciation for the well-being of others. A compassionate man doesn't merely support those he feels badly for the condition of, but he thinks critically and with honest introspection regarding where his resources can be invested to make the greatest impact toward helping others, even to his own personal detriment.

>>114873
which in time results in those 'tightly knit societies' karma coming around to bite them for the consequences that their blinding love of the ego has

>>114997
It's all cyclical. Usually societies pull together because of some crises (like WWII for instances). The generation that lives through the shit tend to put the collective good of all above their own individualism. However, the push towards conformity is chafing.

Enter their kids, who don't remember why everything is so stiflingly structured, and things start to loosen up once they start coming into power. There's some instability as institutions are questioned. Things are still pretty good though, and there's a nice balance between civic mindedness and individualism. The art/music scene tend to at least be pretty good, as the burst in individualism and affluence (from the stability their parents provided) leads to a lot of creativity.

Of course, things go to shit in the next generation. These are the people who go far into individualism, and the trends of more freedom in the past generation play themselves out. People get selfish, and civic mindedness is scoffed at.

The last generation is when shit hits the fan. The dissolution of societal bonds comes to a head, and the old order is too damaged, so must be replaced with a renewed order. Usually there's some crises that turns catastrophic between this generation and the third generation that really tests society and imparts some hard lessons on everyone.

Cue repeat. It's all just one giant pendulum, just like our politics.

We're at the start of that fourth generation by the way, which is probably one of the reasons why we're seeing so many challenges to the status quo.

>>114793
>If you'd rather be a peasant with no natural rights than you should welcome the fall of western culture.

That's what the dark enlightenment/monarchist movements want though.

>>114489
>Society is still improving and advancing at an increasingly faster rate
>poverty and disease still all on decline at increasing rates
>Technology still advancing at increasing rate
>Literacy rates and general intelligence from person to person still increasing

>kicking and screaming and crying about how the age of enlightenment is over and intellectualism is dead because your candidate didn't win the election

Fucking parasites. Can't get you way so try to keep everyone as miserable as possible with propaganda?
If you hate this world that much, kill yourselves.

>>115098
Don't know what you're talking about, but the Dark Enlightenment calls itself a neo-reactionary movement and wants to stamp out liberalism and return the West to a pre-enlightenment society. Even /pol/ makes fun of them, and they're like the furthest thing from being Clinton voters.

>>115098
>poverty and disease still all on decline at increasing rates
Is it though? Disease rates are declining, sure, but poverty continues to grow.

>>115103
Wealth inequality is way up, and many people who were "haves" now have way less, but the actual number of people living in poverty is going down. The world seems to be normalizing around some having everything, while everyone else isn't in poverty, but sitting uncomfortably close to it.

>>115102
I'm aware of the Dark Enlightenment, I'm talking about the parasites running around chicken-littling about the death of freedom and democracy and society because they don't understand how a republic works.

>>115103
>poverty continues to grow.
Factually incorrect.
https://www.cato.org/blog/dramatic-decline-world-poverty
http://blogs.census.gov/2016/09/13/2015-drop-in-poverty-is-largest-on-record-since-1999/

>>115104
>Wealth inequality is
A buzzword by middling socialists looking to buy their third vacation home with donations from hordes of useful idiots looking for a handout.

>and many people who were "haves" now have way less, but the actual number of people living in poverty is going down The world seems to be normalizing around some having everything, while everyone else isn't in poverty, but sitting uncomfortably close to it.
Talking completely out of your economically illiterate ass. The size and scope and general meaning of "haves" has changed so that what it used to mean isn't the same anymore. An Egyptian pharaoh was a "haves" of his time, comparatively we would all blow him out of the water with what we have. This doesn't mean he became poorer in retrospect.

>>115110
I want to kill socialists so bad. It's like, when I see them online, I just want to hurt them and I get all these fantasies in my head. Seeing Sanders on TV makes me so angry that I have to turn it off or go into another room. I'm not even that /pol/ or conservative, I just really hate socialism and think that it has no place in human history.

>>115112
>Hyperbolic strawman poster

Right on cue.

>>115113
He has a point, but he lets emotions get the better of him. Sanders does deserve to be punched in the face for mobilizing a new generation of socialists though.

The thing that's so disgusting about socialists (and statists in general) is that they attack the very idea of meritocracy. The people who make all the money usually deserve it in a free market. Granted, there are some cheaters, but cheating usually takes a high savvy that is not possessed by the general populace, so in a way, they're being rewarded for their above average skills or talents. Besides, cheating is usually abetted by the government.

As for the rest, a failure state is necessary as motivation to keep them in check. This is one of the reasons why socialists nets, public institutions, or handouts are so corrosive (not to mention immoral theft from the successful). They incentivize laziness among the working class, which drags the rest of the system down (along with just being a waste of money). The unemployed and homeless belong in their station too. Their laziness and inability to compete is being justly punished, and they serve as a useful warning to those above them.

>>115113
Socialism deserves to be scorned for it is the most evil movement in all of history. It has killed more people then any other. How many has capitalism killed in comparison? none

>>114489
>Age of Enlightenment is Over
Whites are a minority, so we're experiencing a dark age.

>>114802
This.
>>114815
He's right. People can be rational but we're not always rational enough. We fuck up sometimes (Nazis and Soviet union) and need traditions to allow us to live peacefully.

>>114596
It's gotta be a Jonathan Swift kind of monarchy where the king has a seperate army to kill himself

>>114802
Religion just puts bad behavior by the ruling class in a different wrapper.

Same shit, different age.

>>115116
>Granted, there are some cheaters, but cheating usually takes a high savvy that is not possessed by the general populace, so in a way, they're being rewarded for their above average skills or talents.


Rewarded for being amoral psychopats, then. That's not a way to run a society and you fucking know it.

>>114913

That we are, Love.

>>114489
It's been over for 200 years what are they smoking?

>Harvard Scientist Admits Age of Enlightenment is Over

He is worried about his stem cell research, that's it.

>>115408
>muh grant money

These so called scientist are parasites on society.

>>115600
MRI machines beg to differ

>>114546
You are my least favorite kind of person

>>115116
>>115116

Is this satire? Is this the best of all possible things in this best of all possible worlds? Voltaire already wrote this satire and better than you ever could.

>>115165

>NAZIism
>Not rational enough

The exact opposite in my opinion. The German people rationalized themselves into WWII, eg:

The chancellor is cetralising power, OK. I guess it's a good idea, since we don't stumble over the broken remains of our country as often, or have to take cartloads of Deutch marks to pay for eggs and a loaf of bread
OK, so there are more uniformed officers around it makes me feel safer, but for some reason they pick on old Reubin the tailor a lot, he probably gives th dirty looks... Etc, etc, ad nauseum.

>>114492
Yeah, what we need is another war to restore our strong virtues we inherited from our forefathers.

>>114546
Did you even think before you typed that?

>>115124
Delusion.

>>114691
>>114700
>>114863
literally what is the difference between virtue signaling and affectation
it means you're shallow and/or manipulative and say things not because you mean them, but to win social brownie points
is it that difficult to figure out you smug fucking pseudos

>>114863
Yeah isn't it convenient, that in 10+ years on this website, I've never seen the term up more than a handful of times until these past 4 or more months?

Is it not also convenient that all of a sudden EVERYONE happens to be "virtue signaling"?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=virtue%20signaling

It's just another fucking meme that destroys discussion, much like calling someone a shill or whatever fantasy organization. People can't handle getting BTFO in a simple debate, so they spout the latest meme instead of at least attempting to put together a thought.

The problem is people are promoting hate and anger instead of just showing each other love

>>116433

I don't think people even know why they hate each other

>>115116

>there were no homeless people before socialism

>>114604
the first two are good
the fewer footholds social parasites have, the better
>peace by war
confusedman.wav

>>116471
They want a return to the glorious, good old days of conquest and imperialism?

Seems pretty suicidal in the modern age though.

>>114914
So you're admitting that he hit the nail on the head? Trolling or not, I'm pretty sure you prefer lazing in front of a computer screen posting on 4chan to getting rounded up, starved, and gassed while watching others like you get the same treatment. All because some delusional fuck you didn't even vote for woke up one day and decided you had to die.

>>116504
Thanks Captain Obvious

>>114489
What does it mean - he admits?

It is nothing more than an opinion.