1. One spin-off of the Enlightenment was the desire to find new myths that would transcend daily existence and take one to a higher level of purification. Proto-fascist, and founder of ecology, Ernst Haeckel, invested nature-worship with the belief that all matter was alive and possessed mental attributes. In ‘monism,’ he brought together hostility to Christianity and propaganda for Darwinism, a nature cult and theories of hygiene and selective breeding.
J.W. Burrow, “The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914,” p. 218-19
While some of the darker elements of the belief have been ...modified...., the elements of stupidity and misunderstand, alas....remain as a hallmark of what is know as 'environmentalism.'
2. The most direct result of the Enlightenment was the ritual slaughter that we call 'the French Revolution.' J.J.Rousseau, the intellectual godfather of the movement, blamed society for man's degradation, specifically the aristocracy and organized religion.
Ironically, Rousseau plus the Enlightenment produced a new religion, some bizarre iteration of 'science.'
a." April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.
Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.
Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.
There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom." From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich
3. Perhaps the most wrong-headed myth that sprang from Rousseau's over-taxed imagination was that of 'the Noble Savage,' an apocraphal pre-civilization human being living in harmony with nature, not wanting for anything more than his daily bread......that provided by Gaia, the Earth....the personification of environmentalism.
Today, the 'Nobel Savage' nonsense remains a central theme of environmentalism.
J.W. Burrow, “The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914,” p. 218-19
While some of the darker elements of the belief have been ...modified...., the elements of stupidity and misunderstand, alas....remain as a hallmark of what is know as 'environmentalism.'
2. The most direct result of the Enlightenment was the ritual slaughter that we call 'the French Revolution.' J.J.Rousseau, the intellectual godfather of the movement, blamed society for man's degradation, specifically the aristocracy and organized religion.
Ironically, Rousseau plus the Enlightenment produced a new religion, some bizarre iteration of 'science.'
a." April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.
Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.
Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.
There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom." From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich
3. Perhaps the most wrong-headed myth that sprang from Rousseau's over-taxed imagination was that of 'the Noble Savage,' an apocraphal pre-civilization human being living in harmony with nature, not wanting for anything more than his daily bread......that provided by Gaia, the Earth....the personification of environmentalism.
Today, the 'Nobel Savage' nonsense remains a central theme of environmentalism.
