In a way, the crap Voltaire, D'Alembert, and Frederick of Prussia did is directly connected to the Long March through the Institutions by the Frankfurt School, not to mention John Dewey's "revolution" on Education. I even argue that Voltaire and especially D'Alembert's "contribution" to education was FAR worse than Jean-Jacques Rousseau's contribution largely because of Voltaire deliberately trying to sabotage education (Rousseau you could argue was merely incompetent). Basically doing what Richard Rorty did with his students and how that led directly to Obama. And he also propagandized people to be steeled against Christianity as well, while obviously promoting Atheism, even managing to turn nearly overnight the definition of an academic into basically being an atheist in all but name thanks to that. He also stifled and crushed the actual rights of Christians to speak, destroyed the Jesuit order, which by consequence also left France with a poor education system before he took it over and arguably turned it for the worse.
Probably the worst thing about it all is that Voltaire claims he was promoting freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and now has a reputation among even us Conservatives of being the embodiment of free speech values, even when he all but completely DESTROYED the right for Christians to engage in Free Speech. In some ways, I actually find free speech too cynical to be worth anything at this point, even with it being protected under the Constitution, especially when he clearly used free speech as a weapon to cow people into destroying Christendom. Heck, Voltaire was indirectly responsible for the proto-Bolsheviks, aka the Jacobins' later murder of the king.
Otness_e has done us all a favor here. When I joined Free Republic years ago it was a platform, forum, where people who had good character engaged in lively discussions to take up questions and riddles that never were solved. Thanks. I probably will use this material in our class in Mexico, we teach English and History. Our ‘spin’, is that Mexico was more influenced really by the French Revolution than the Spanish Crown. Thanks... and a proper day. Determined to keep the focus and not give up on a better politic in America.
Has there ever been a coup or revolution without conspiracy?
Thank you for this. Bookmarking for later.
The Storming of the Bastille = The Simultaneous Cessation of Vote Counting in Swing States
Bavarian Illuminati ping!