The Unenlightenment Era

Why are we becoming extremists?

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“I hate our current era”, my seventy-three years old mother told me recently during breakfast. I was stunned. And sad. We had just heard about yet another academic and mediatic senior intellectual who was now canceled for something he might have said or done decades ago. That was the trigger, but her reaction felt much deeper than that. Why is she feeling that way? Are…