o_0 I'd ask for a link, but life is too short to read Moldbug. Does he explain the Enlightenment in general as a descendant of Puritanism, or something similar? 'Cos the world, and RW, are slightly bigger than America.
First, my excessive precision may have been rather myopic.
Nonetheless, Moldbug does, in fact, hold that the Enlightenment (a nebulous historical concept) was a manifestation of a particular strain of Protestantism.
If you do have the time, here is a relevant Moldbug article:
I am not sure whether this has been posted here before but I came across this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
What do you think about RationalWiki in general, and their opinion regarding LW?