WHEN SOMEONE USES THE TERM “REDUCTIONISM” THEY”RE ADMITTING THEY HAVE NO ARGUMENT.
—“The notion that “ancient western man lifted mankind out of ignorance” is a biased and parochial view of philosophical history. There was and is a global network. “—
You have an unscientific (and non-operational) undrestanding of history.
Why is it that each kin group aggressively preserved it’s grammars and semantics? Their group evolutionary strategies?
Truth was invented precisely once.
Militia > Heroism > Sovereignty > Reciprocity > Natural Law > Truth regardless of impact on the status quo > Reason > Rationalism > Science > Markets in Everything — was developed precisely once.
Those people in that global network actively sought, and actively seek, to circumvent that unique western individualism (sovereignty).
Man has resisted it at every single opportunity. the closest movement – that of the chinese – was a reaction to it.
The original development of religion as we understand it was in reaction to it (indo-iranian vs european divide)
That vast system of fraud we call the abrahamic religions was invented to counter it.
Rousseau-Kant and the counter-enlightenment that continues today on the continent was invented to counter it.
Marxism-Postmodernism-Feminism were invented to counter it.
Genetics > Geography > Means of Production > Military Strategy > Military Order > Political Order > Social Order > intellectual justification of that group strategy.