The enlightenment is built on the idea that people know how to run their lives. We need to push all of that aside and think for ourselves, he says. When we talk about living in an encounter enlightenment, the nanny state is an expression of the counter-enlightenment. The lockdown was an expression of thatcounter-enlight Enlightenment. Cancelled culture is an expression Of That Counter-Enlightenment. So it basically is about recovering some of those, that enlightenment self-confidence in ourselves.
Brendan O'Neill is a British political commentator and author. He was the editor of Spiked from 2007 to September 2021, and is currently its chief political writer. Once a Trotskyist, O'Neill was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party's journal Living Marxism. O'Neill currently defines himself as a Marxist libertarian.
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