/lit/ - Literature

>>8044717
Daesh dreams about a past that has never been. That's not reactionary. That's plain Bulius Ebola circle jerk.

The enlightment made people believe that they could sit on their asses, discuss for a while and then go out and solve people's problems. As of now, more or less liberal democrats prides themselves with their heritage from the enlightment. But the enlightment also created Robespierre's reign of terror - the very template of 20th century totalitarian pruges.

Modernism is applied enlightment. Modernism is an ideology of violence. Modernism claims that no one before has thought different nor made sensible and practical buildings etc. Therefore: To hell with the past.

>lack of faith
No, religion isn't the solution. See above. Enlightment and modernism is eschatology.