mattnewport comments on Only humans can have human values - Less Wrong

34 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 April 2010 06:57PM

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Comment author: Thomas 26 April 2010 08:38:59PM -1 points [-]

Hitler had an entire ideology built around the idea, as I gather, that civilization was an evil constriction on the will to power; and artfully attached it to a few compatible cultural values.

The idea, that the civilization is an evil construction which "pollutes the environment and endangers species" is again very popular. That humans and humanity would be good, had they never build a technical civilization, is the backbone of the modern Green movement.

Comment author: mattnewport 26 April 2010 08:47:34PM -1 points [-]