Yes, and the contemporary concept of liberalism (classical liberalism) is a modernist concept dating back just a few hundred years. That doesn't mean freedom didn't exist, but the idea of liberty as a totalizing framework is quite new because totalizing frameworks are themselves a quite recent invention. Unfortunately, even conservatism got caught up in the modernist totalizing impulse and so became just another totalizing ideology one could follow. What was conservative in the modernist period did not truly resemble what came before. Other alternatives also are built on the same foundation -- socialism, fascism, they're just different outgrowths of modernity and it's totalizing impulse.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
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