plough.com Frustrating essay by @NotoriousTIB. It starts with a list of social ills that are explicitly identified as problems that dramatically worsened b/t "1990 and 2020" but then blame these social changes on...
"the long arc of Enlightenment thinking"
"the long arc of Enlightenment thinking"
at some level we have to ask: why didn't the long arc of enlightenment thinking also cause these problems in 1985? 1975? 1925? 1880? and so forth
strikes me as exceedingly unlikely that John Locke is to blame for the changing number of friends Americans had between the years 1990 and 2020, but had no such impact in any of the centuries in between his life and ours.
At best it is a partial answer: something happened between 1960 and 1990 say that allowed enlightenment liberalism to take a maladaptive turn. But then the onus is on the essay writer to explain what they thing was!
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