🩸 History As Story Of Violence

For Du Maistre, History was not a story of progress, but the story of violence becoming more universal, more destructive, and ever more violent.

The great illusion of the Enlightenment, in Maistre’s eyes, was that it sacralized violence under the name of progress and liberty and thus perpetuated what he already knew: violence, not liberty, not equality, was the spirit of life.

So Progress was really the tearing down of all the barriers erected by humans to try and prevent each other from tearing one another limb from limb. The end result of this was the mass washing of human blood of the last 300 years.

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