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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The fact you or I would consider it a nightmare to go back in a time even 200 years (let alone 2000) says otherwise.
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Non sequitur. You're conflating the innate with the learned, nobody is claiming that ideas, institutions and culture cannot change, just that self-deception and hypocrisy are none of these, but rather are universal to the human animal.
It's an illiberal notion that humans are plastic and unaffected by their natural qualities, by the way. The perfectibility of humans via social institutions is more of a Marxist thing. The best a classic liberal can hope for is to repress our emotional and physical selves under a dictatorship of the clear mind.