After the resurgence of homophobia, racism, antivax, misogyny, I've been wondering if we're undoing the last couple of centuries of civilization. I never expected the next step to be left-handedness becoming associated with evil again.
history sort of rhymes but its because even in the past, we are still merely humans. I suspect there's no resurgence of these "philosophies", they were probably always there but hidden to whatever degree appropriate to the state of the current things. I definitely agree tho, in my youth I thought science and rational thought would be spread by enhanced worldwide communications but should have known all that would be…
That's what I meant by resurgence. They were never gone, but less dominant, losing in influence. And now they're, one by one, being forced back into our faces again, undoing much of the progress we seemed to have made.
> I thought science and rational thought would be spread by enhanced worldwide communications
Yeah, we'd have so much information at our fingertips. Surely that would usher in a new era of democratization and enlightenment. Turns out it made lies spread a lot faster than truth.