Thread 520781173

Apparently The Age of Reason is predated by the scientific revolution and then it is followed by romanticism, the industrial revolution and then I guess the information Age? Does that all sound about right? But I think its splitting hairs. I think it was all The Age of Reason which began with the scientific revolution in the 1500s. And The Age of Reason is now over. Isn't it? Don't you feel that. It really seems like everyone feels it. That people legitimately can't be reasoned with anymore. We are truly and finally entering a new Dark Age. Gee I wonder what it'll be called. I just can't imagine. Can you?

>>520781173 (OP)
What the fuck am I looking at?

>>520781463
The end of The Age of Reason

>>520781463
Can't you smell it through the screen?

>>520781463
Fermented basedbean jar being whiffed thru costume vent

>>520781173 (OP)
We had christian values. Then we rediscovered and tried to reintegrate ancient philosophy, mainly Greek but not just Greek. This ended up fracturing everything. You get the protestant reformation for example. Then because we are so fractured we have the 30 year war which is the deadliest war in human history to that point. I'm pretty sure it killed over 50% of the male population in some countries. This is the back drop you have to understand.

This is where the age of reason came from. What it was is an abandonment of universal morality because the trauma of the 30 year war. We realized because we are now fractured, if everyone is as commited to their values as they were before, we would all kill each other. So instead of discussing the question of what is virtuous, what is human nature and of what the good life consists, we focused on individualism and personal freedoms. This is like locke, hobbes and rousseau and really the values that America was newly constructed on.

This is how I would kind of define the age of reason. So no, it was never about having the ability to reason with each other exactly. It was a fragile compromise to ignore the actual things that make a person have a meaningful life in order to ensure that we didn't completely annihilate each other.

Is it breaking down? I think it is beginning to. The liberal consensus is beginning to falter and most people realize the nihilism that has been a direct result is not good. People are beginning to search for meaning again but we have no idea how or where to find it. Also we don't know what parts of what was created we are and are not willing to abandon.

>>520781173 (OP)
please gib sound version

>>520784345
Also I must say I think the way to define decadence is precisely as a time in which people no longer share a Weltanschauung. This is what causes and feel like decay. Luckily however, it seems that is precisely when decadence gets the worst that we have new invigoration, even if it means old systems may fall.

The dark ages is exactly the opposite. The dark ages were not dark because people could not find a unifying world view. It was dark precisely because of the dominance and strength of the new christian milieu.

>>520781463
nerve gas

>>520781173 (OP)
The industry, and cultural imitation, to confuse the people about real culture. The merchants have their dogma, but true faith is not with the cost. The scientists by their limited knowledge, because of denial of the facts; but the heliocentric cosmology give them measures out of proportion, but the geocentric cosmology axioms, true physics, beware of sophists.

>>520781173 (OP)
do not be like the epicurean, with their sensory dogma, they cannot understand being practical

>>520781463
Just some fake tiktok bullshit

>>520781173 (OP)

The age of reason began with the marginalizing of Jews by Christians in Europe. The reintroduction of Jews and Jewish power has brought about the beginning of the second Dark Age.

Their policies and beliefs have brought the downfall of the higher nations of man and the uplifting of the lower nations.

The only higher (more like middle )people that have somewhat benefitted are the Chinese, but they've always lived on a thread of existence anyway. When the world collapses, they will turn inward and fight among themselves with their stolen technology and stagnate.

>>520781173 (OP)
It doesn't have to be over, and some people are still quite reasonable. I think you romanticize an end because you want to be free from your slavery, or your dull life.

Either way, you should be an example for what you want to see in the world, and you should try to find peace in your life instead of dragging others down to the pits with you.