In a message dated 2/12/2006 1:20:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example: "The chief tenet of the Enlightenment is that the growth of knowledge is the key to human emancipation. No true believer in the Enlightenment would ever question that article of faith. Yet faith in progress through the growth of knowledge is itself irrational."
It should be clear to most people these days that most of the world despises the ideas of the Enlightenment, and they will quite happily burn us all at the stake to make us believe their nonsense. Unless we are very careful indeed, we will soon enter a new age of endarkenment. Bob ======== Well said. The path of globalization tends to lead downward to the lowest common denominator. And in some countries that is very low indeed. Marnie aka Doe The solution, of course, is an international labor movement.
