[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

(put this in the "end of faith" discussion. suited better there.)

Platt:
> I think the rights spawned during enlightenment and the American 
> revolution
> were rooted in a historical moment when meta-intellect, which also spawned 
> the
> MOQ, burst through the darkness into the light of day. It's moment in the 
> sun
> was all too brief, to be smothered by the SOM scientific mind-blanket.


Fact square: The ideas that the break away colonists of the USA based their 
nation on was of course a product of the enlightenment. More accurately the 
constitution is a direct implementation of Montesquieu 's "De l'esprit des 
lois" from 1748 - something that has in practice not been updated since. 
Now, the ideas of Montesquieu was indeed an expression of a time when new 
ideas flourished - ideas of how to govern a state was constructed with the 
utmost vigour and in a true spirit of experiment. On the writing table that 
is. Montesquieu also proposed that people should be governed differently 
according to the climate, and ideas of radical redistribution governments 
and anarchy-like government flourished and were apprised alike - it was in 
the spirit of experiment. On the writing table. This said - this wasn't as 
Platt implies a time when freedom ideas were at their peak - it was a time 
when ALL KINDS of (crazy) ideas were at their peak. The ideas were so 
unbalanced and out there because they were new, revolutionary, and the 
absolutistic government of the time that was the only thing anybody knew of 
made it possible to build all kinds of thought models - because they had 
never been implemented, so there was nothing to judge it against.

All for now.

Regards

Chris