Lumifer comments on "NRx" vs. "Prog" Assumptions: Locating the Sources of Disagreement Between Neoreactionaries and Progressives (Part 1) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 05 September 2014 12:35:10AM 3 points [-]

They have a far more broad target in mind—the Enlightenment, I guess, more or less.

No need to guess, rejecting the Enlightenment is one of the big NR themes...

Comment author: Azathoth123 05 September 2014 02:36:09AM *  4 points [-]

rejecting the Enlightenment is one of the big NR themes...

It's also a big thing in modern Progressivism on the grounds that the Enlightenment was a bunch of dead white men. The difference, and this is the reason why it's so easy to get confused by the relationship between the Enlightenment and Progressivism, is that modern Progressives seek to reject the Enlightenment in the name of the Enlightenment.