"Western" Civilization, including the "Enlightenment", has a few good ideas with which to fight a hundred millenia's worth of built-up and handed-down human failings. It is a battle worth waging.
It is a battle that it is losing.
19 May 2007
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property rights
rule of law
equal justice under law
rights of englishmen (evolved)
representative democracy
limited government
applied science (overdone?)
are all losing ground to resurgent fundamentalism.
what to do?
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