the enlightenment gave us liberty and democracy, progressive political revolutions across the americas and france, revolutions in mathematics and science and the formalization of the scientific method, freedom from religious and superstitious rule, the metric system (i love it), the common coin of rationality in public discourse and politics, etc etc...
bullshit. you people have to remember that you are comparing Europe to Europe when you praise the so-called Enlightenment. How were the Enlightened? Did they find Love? Empathy? Integrity? Deep Cultural Awareness? Spirituality? Intelligence? fuck no! Only Europe entered the Dark Ages, the rest of the world was thriving, expanding, evolving, in a truthful and uplifting way. It was only the Europeans who came to encourage racist expansion and true imperial colonialism. they were the ones who invented the "chosen people" myths, and it is the Enlightenment that directly supported this racist philosophy, always the driving force. dont let the so-called history books fool you, look at the reality of things, not the stories.
!@#$% it is indeed truth that the Enlightenment is the bedrock of racism and imperialistic colonialism. nothing good or truth came out. there is no such thing as democracy it is a fairy tale. We rasta deal with reality and we know the games behind the shitstem. it is all an illusion. the only truth is love, and no love came from the enlightenment, only slavery to the world, both mental and physical! Do you think it is coincidence that immediately following the so-called Enlightement was the beginning of modern warfare, and the first times that people came together to kill each other in their tens of thousands a day?
