Age of Enlightenment

And that philosophical mindset is called biocentrism.

And in the very early beginnings of the Enlightenment, that was actually the standard belief, even back in the days of Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton and all.

It's a study of consciousness.

So when you try to take consciousness out of science and you just assume that consciousness is in the universe, you're making an assumption that actually isn't proven and doesn't work very well.

Whether it's diabetes, heart disease, coffee is a very profound longevity substance.

But if you go back to...

the foundations of the Enlightenment.

There were these coffee houses in Europe where all the scientists hung out.

This is why you have atheist, non-religious Jews that are still intimately tied with Jewish affairs and Jewish identity.

And we'll get into this because it all is part of the of a later the the Enlightenment period in Judaism.

Right.

They went through their own enlightenment in which Jews basically began to renounce some of the conservative, more orthodox forms of their tradition, began adopting European aesthetics, European styles.

And it had to do with this elevation of reason.

So during the Enlightenment, with the elevation of reason and the diminishment of religious affiliation or religious practice, as I at points being described as irrational, Jews saw this as an opportunity to incorporate themselves more into European society, that the Enlightenment provided a very beneficial opportunity for Jews to supplant themselves in urban settings and to dress and present themselves just like the rest of Europeans.

And this led to conflict.

This is where we get the reform category of Jews, generally speaking.

So today, many of those evil doctrines spread by the Illuminati are taught as truth, unquote, unquote, unquote, in universities across America and Europe and around the world, such as the idea that private property rights should be abolished for the most part or the idea that religion is a crutch for the ignorant masses.

So, and as Robinson documented extensively, the conspirators continued spreading their subversion across Europe, even after their discovery, something that came to be closely associated with the Enlightenment.

You guys remember that? And the rejection of religion and the hatred against Christianity in particular.

So if you guys remember that age, the Enlightenment age, that's what I think they're referring to here.

So moving right along.

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But the evil man and deceivers shall wax worse and worse while they deceive and are deceived themselves.

As was shown in recent videos, this does sound very much like Illuminism and Enlightenment language.

As you see from this tweet, there has been this constant railing that we need to

okay so let me let me just he's skipping this over alex jones posted this picture okay on his own twitter account and it shows a picture i believe i don't know maybe the army navy game where they play they play a football game um army navy does every year for i don't know how many decades and decades um and it's showing a picture of trump jd vance's vice president and elon musk standing behind them i guess i think they're in a box seat at this game And Alex Jones says about this picture, they say a picture tells a thousand words.

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And that mindset, it didn't fade away with the Enlightenment.

It became totally institutionalized.

So that 1963 quote you opened with, that came from Hugh Trevor Roper.

Well, yeah, and tolerance always – you use tolerance to get where you want to go.

I mean, the way that we've gotten to where we are from where this country was founded – where a lot of people will make the argument, and it's true, the founders were, a lot of them were steeped in the Enlightenment, but when it came to tolerance, they were tolerant of certain things about their culture, about the culture that they created, that they live in.

They were intolerant of other cultures.

There were cultural bumpers put on the three-by-five index card of allowable opinion.

The Death of Reading with James Marriott.

Given ongoing declines in reading, are we on the verge of a new Dark Ages? Joining visiting fellow Russ Roberts on EconTalk, London Times columnist and author James Marriott makes the case that our abandonment of reading poses a threat to democracy and could reverse many of the Enlightenment's gains.

After a discussion of the history of reading, Marriott offers some consolation.

Just as fast food gave rise to the gym, informational junk food may give rise to reading as an intentional discipline.

Upon leaving the college, he received a payment of 600 livres for his academic excellence, an honor worth in excess of a year's living allowance.

During his formative years at the college, Robespierre had developed admiration for the classical virtues, as well as for the work of the philosopher and political scientists of the Enlightenment, which France was at the center of in the 18th century.

In particular, He was a great admirer of the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his concept of the virtuous self, the idea that a man should stand alone in the world accompanied only by his conscience.

Rousseau's political theories, as outlined in works such as his book The Social Contract, published in 1762, would have an enormous impact on not only upon the young Maximilien, but later upon France as a whole, with its argument that absolutist monarchs of the kind which had ruled France for centuries were not divinely ordained and that governments had to earn the right to rule through just actions and the general will of their citizens.

There were, though, elements within the work of Rousseau and other writers of the Enlightenment that could expose France to violent mob rule and populism if pushed too far.

These Enlightenment ideas would have an enormous bearing on Robespierre's life and the events that would play out in France in the years to come.

Robespierre returned to Arras in 1781 and found success as a lawyer, gaining admission to the bar on the 15th of May 1781 and then appointed as a judge in the criminal court in March 1782 at a very young age.

However, he soon resigned his position due to the early opposition he felt towards the death penalty.