spiked-politics - A brief history of bollocks

‘It was originally going to be subtitled “A Brief History of Bollocks” but the publishers balked’, says Francis Wheen ….

…. Wheen reckons we’re living through a counter-revolution against the Enlightenment, that revolution in human affairs when reason was elevated over tradition and superstition to become, in the words of one author, ‘the arbiter of truth and the foundation of objective knowledge’. ‘The Enlightenment brought us out of the dark’, says Wheen. ‘Now we seem to be heading back in.’

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