Up Team Enlightenment! Down Team Romanticism!

[Wilson23]

"Star Trek" is Team Enlightenment. The Federation is a utopia based on science, technology and reason.

"Star Wars" is Team Romanticism. The heroes are wizards and ape-men, and the high-tech Empire is the enemy.

Enlightenment is better. Romanticism is always fascism-in-embryo.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RomanticismVersusEnlightenment

 

[Wilson23]

Of course, Enlightenment is communism-in-embryo.

There is a direct line running from Voltaire, through Marx, to Lenin.

And there is another direct line running from Rousseau, through Nietzsche, to Hitler.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Dude no offense, because, basically I like you; you honestly make a lot of good points on this forum and do a good job of keeping people honest and calling out the trolls on their bullshit.

But you REALLY ought to lay off starting all these threads. More than half of the threads on the front page are yours. That was part of the issue with Busybody/Originalny, and with this other guy Politruk (was that you?)

Just saying; your heart may be in the right place, but you start too many threads.