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Originally Posted by Soriak  The enlightenment grew exactly out of questions like these and we don't have to argue about the impact that had. It's not the questions itself that are directly meaningful, but what we understand when we think about it.
Voltaire said that people who were used to regurgitate now began to think and once the time of thinking had come, it'd be impossible to rob the people of that power. |
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Originally Posted by darksensei This isn't some plebeian versus patrician debate, if you don't care about fundamental questions regarding entities that regulate your life that is your own problem. The majority don't care, but I doubt the majority ever think about it. |
If it mattered in the course of people's lives, people would care. It isn't my problem or anyone's problem, it's the fact that it doesn't factor into real life choices at all. It isn't about plebian vs patrician, it's reality vs academia. When you remove yourself from the equation it becomes easy to think about philosophical things such as this. You can't remove yourself from your reality, though. For all Voltaire's writing, or Shaw or whoever, most people don't even know who they are. There thoughts live on in academia, and the masses could still give a shit less. Nothing changes.
