Marc "A pumpkin" Godin on Nostr: I wanna echo Skuppr here, you have some reading to catch up on. The "Enlightenment" ...

I wanna echo Skuppr here, you have some reading to catch up on. The "Enlightenment" was many things and one of those things was an engine for enclosure of the commons at home and extraction and colonialism abroad.

A large justification for residential schools, dispossession of land, the "enfranchisement" process, and even today's paternalism justifying oil pipelines through unceded Indigenous land requires the logic of the enlightenment.