![]() How did we go from the noble humanism of the ancients and Christians to the de-humanizing tyranny and terror of the moderns? ![]() ![]() Far from some glow of liberty, we live in the era of de-humanizing totalitarianism. Modernity is witness to the “utopian genocides” of the last 200 years, beginning with the Terror of the French Revolution and proceeding with horrifying mass murderous regimes of the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Maoists, Khmer Rouge, ISIS, and others. The actual record of history calls this narrative into question. One of the great lies of modernity is that the ancient world was despotic, totalitarian, and authoritarian while we, by contrast, living in the afterglow of the Enlightenment (the greatest propaganda term ever invented), are freed from that ancient darkness and tyranny. “ Beginning with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, proceeding through the luminaries of German Idealism and Romanticism-climaxing with Hegel-then marching beyond Hegel to Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Newell gives a reading of philosophy gone wrong.” Executioner Charles-Henri Sanson shows her severed head to the crowd) ![]() (Execution of Marie Antoinette, 16 October 1793. ![]()
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