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To: skinowski who wrote (506312)9/4/2012 4:01:07 PM
From: D. Long8 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 794408
 
This "mass psychosis" has its roots in the scientism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There was so much confidence in the advances of the hard sciences that people began to believe the same sort of scientific rigour could be applied to the "social sciences," which were still merely branches of philosophy up to that point. The educated classes began to believe Man could be engineered to perfection using the same empirical methods we used to master Nature.

Karl Marx's socialism was one of the fruits. The idea that a few smart men could engineer society, which is the product of thousands of years of evolution, is a delusion that plagued the 20th century and was the root of millions of deaths in that century.
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