Ritalin comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ritalin 18 November 2014 10:01:11PM 9 points [-]

originated in an intellectual experiment in the 18th Century called the Enlightenment: democracy, egalitarianism, cosmopolitanism, feminism, secularism, individualism and so forth

... Actually all of those ideas are considerably older than the Enlightenment, and can be traced to Antiquity and beyond.

Comment author: satt 20 November 2014 03:24:13AM 4 points [-]

Egalitarianism in particular jumps out as an odd entry in that list, since anatomically modern humans probably spent most of their evolutionary history in hunter-gatherer bands appreciably more egalitarian than sedentary civilizations.