What makes these fatuous things dangerous is that each one of those headlines represents authentic political and social action which can affect the freedom and liberty of all.
To be educated is to know these figures and understand the freedom of conscience, as well as physical and political freedom, their overall movement allowed for in human history.
When the fatuous is taken as serious, our society is in peril as it means there is no longer any widely held standard of what passes for rational or reasonable. This means that the gains of the Enlightenment are being eroded, undermined, by social and political movements wishing to create a populace trapped in ignorant superstition of earlier times which made it easier for despots to exercise power.
The Enlightenment was the great intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries which emphasized reason and individualism rather than tradition, especially tradition borne of unproven superstition. 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton influenced it and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
Only the stupid, who have read without understanding, could fail to see how fatuous are the roots of many current social and political movements.
To be educated is to know these figures and understand the freedom of conscience, as well as physical and political freedom, their overall movement allowed for in human history. Only the stupid, who have read without understanding, with any type of true education, formal or not, could fail to see how fatuous, how silly and pointless and inanely foolish, are the root of many current social and political movements from so-called animal rights to apocalyptic climate change caused by man’s technological rise.
Our fatuous world is eroding Enlightenment gains
What makes these fatuous things dangerous is that each one of those headlines represents authentic political and social action which can affect the freedom and liberty of all.
To be educated is to know these figures and understand the freedom of conscience, as well as physical and political freedom, their overall movement allowed for in human history.
When the fatuous is taken as serious, our society is in peril as it means there is no longer any widely held standard of what passes for rational or reasonable. This means that the gains of the Enlightenment are being eroded, undermined, by social and political movements wishing to create a populace trapped in ignorant superstition of earlier times which made it easier for despots to exercise power.
The Enlightenment was the great intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries which emphasized reason and individualism rather than tradition, especially tradition borne of unproven superstition. 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton influenced it and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
Only the stupid, who have read without understanding, could fail to see how fatuous are the roots of many current social and political movements.
To be educated is to know these figures and understand the freedom of conscience, as well as physical and political freedom, their overall movement allowed for in human history. Only the stupid, who have read without understanding, with any type of true education, formal or not, could fail to see how fatuous, how silly and pointless and inanely foolish, are the root of many current social and political movements from so-called animal rights to apocalyptic climate change caused by man’s technological rise.