The Age of Reason Got Left in the Dust

If there is a recurring theme to the politically-focused posts here at 2GreenEnergy, it could be summed up as “how far we’ve fallen.”

The author of the meme here has nailed something.  American revolutionary Thomas Paine’s famous book shares its name with the philosophical movement of the 17th and 18th Centuries.  The Age of Reason, aka The Enlightenment, represented a true breakthrough for Western Civilization, giving rise to our respect for science, and our love of liberty, pursuit of human happiness, toleration, and the separation of church and state.

The cartoon on the right-hand side depicts the corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, but it really could have been anything in our modern world of U.S. political culture: QAnon, the insurrection, the Big Lie, MAGA, the anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, Republicans’ support for Putin, etc.