Re: The Enlightenment Is Over

Posted by Hax Templar on
URL: http://mikraite.559.s1.nabble.com/The-Enlightenment-Is-Over-tp107p379.html

Interesting theory (and hello, by the way, nice to be here :).  I would agree with you that sluts share some characteristics with psychopaths but I would stress that most of us don't really know what a psychopath is.  We generally refer to it as people who lack the ability to feel empathy for others.  The more clinical term I think is "sociopath." It's true that sluts tend to lack empathy although they don't necessarily lack in all forms of empathy.  Having worked in the public defender's office and lived in the ghetto, I know what a real psychopath is and they can't really be generalized due to being too monstrous.

At the same time, it's true that the brain builds up resistances to many happy/friendly chemicals related to emotional responses.  This is why relationships predicated only upon emotion don't last etc.  Someone who perpetually releases these feelings would in theory become desensitized to them while a person who releases them less often feels them more strongly when they do release them.

More generally and not-physically, the modern slut often lacks a form of empathy for herself.  Often she has no intention to have children or reproduce which is obviously harmful in a way.  This is sort of the female version of the playboy male who is terrified of the thought of having kids.  The slut tends to idolize such men and seeks to emulate them although it has a worse effect on the female of course than it does upon the male.

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Also, interesting argument about the enlightenment being over.  A possible weakness (in a way) I see here is that people from the left have no interest in admitting that it could be over.  They view themselves as "enlightened" and as the natural heirs of enlightenment thought.  I totally agree with you that humility and caution is a requirement and that they reject such things along with rejecting religion.  So, it probably is over (whatever it was ;) but I don't think anyone who likes enlightenment thought would be willing to admit that it's over.

IMHO, the enlightenment was probably over the second Napoleon went off the deep end and decided he was Emperor of Democratic France.  From that moment on liberalism went from being a potentially useful philosophical mechanism to being a form of totalitarianism that can't see itself in the mirror.