The Enlightenment

Humanism doesn’t replace religion—it replaces revelation with assumption.

Nationalism isn’t felt — it’s printed, read, and repeated.

Neoclassicism didn’t revive antiquity—it repackaged archaeology as political architecture.

Rationalism doesn’t trust the senses—it distrusts them. And that’s where it starts to fail.

Romanticism made feeling a credential—and turned sincerity into a substitute for skill.

Smith wrote 'an invisible hand' twice — not as doctrine, but as irony. Everything after is a misquotation.

The noble savage was never noble, never savage, and never real — just a rhetorical tool wielded across five centuries to justify, protest, or parody power.

Legitimacy is consent—but consent to what, and from whom, Rousseau never says.

Wollstonecraft didn’t ask for women’s inclusion in reason—she proved men had monopolised it.