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>>11285450

It's neither nonsequiturs nor appealing to historical necessity. The Greeks, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the ensuring loss of faith from the 17th to the 21st century, the empiricists, pragmatists, widespread materialism, the Frankfurt school, French deconstructionists, 'Critical Theory' etc are all related to one another and are built upon one another, there is a natural progression that occurs. It was not inevitable that it happened exactly the way it did but it's inevitable that something along those lines would happen eventually because at it's heart western society is unmoored without any bedrock to keep it in place.

The reason those did not occur in the East is because eastern thought is generally based on timeless transcendental principles which until the rise of westernization which was mostly forced on the east those principles were enough to guide society and people didn't radically question the assumptions that laid the basis for their cultures; the principles were elaborated in different forms and commented on but there was never any radical shift in societies understanding itself. There were all sorts of radical materialist and quasi-nihilist sramanic movements in the 1st millennium BC in India for example but they never gained a foothold and quickly died out because they couldn't compete with the transcendental principles being taught by the religions at the time.

>>11099684
incredible post. thank ye very kindly based af anon.