How the Age of Reason Ruined Everything: Enlightenment Philosophy, LGBTQ+ History & Women’s Rights

[@AlchemicKitten]

Personally, I think the problem with communism is mostly cultural. I don't believe humans aren't hyper individualistic greedy idiots by nature. We're flawed and complicated, but ultimately social Creatures.

[@wistfulchameleon]

Wow, how has it taken to algorithm so long to present your content to me?! We share a lot of the same weird, niche hyper fixations. For example, absolutely love the new Medusa tattoo! Thank you for making content where you show so much passion for such niche things. It’s very validating.

[@meghansandor]

Ahhh I love that you love Medusa too!! Thanks for the awesome comment and welcome to the channel! :)

[@thegoldenfox283]

Damn I never knew that there was such a flip flop from woke to trad con so far back in history. I’ve always kind of thought that society tends to oscillate between the two. Crazy how long this cycle has been going on for

[@meghansandor]

Oh hell yeah, that's been going on FOREVER, all throughout history! Whenever there's a movement towards progress, there's always a conservative backlash against it. It goes right back to the Egyptian empire (that we know of, but I'm sure it happened even earlier than that too). It's human nature--most people don't like change ;)

[@TheBlueIguanaTattooCompany]

I have been tattooing for 33 years .Many of them in Toronto . I love hand tattoos also. I quit my career last year to spend more time as a single father ,and wrote a book about trauma and pain called {eight} . pain being our first language .I just wanted to say you are a ray of sunshine.

[@meghansandor]

Thank you, that's so sweet! :) Hand tattoos are beautiful, I've always loved them and I love mine and I have new respect for people who have them too because OUCH. That's so cool that you've been tattooing that long! If I was a better artist I would 1000% be a tattoo artist.

[@Reed5016]

I’d absolutely be interested in Marie Antoinette’s sapphic side. That’d be super cool. Love this video, btw.

[@catherinesandor5063]

I remember those books on your shelves! Seeing those covers sent me fever dreams from our childhood! 😆😆

[@meghansandor]

Haha right?? I still have them, they've survived all of my moves and I will never let them go. They're like a core memory for me 😆

[@DamionLost]

This was an amazing video, with some great parallels being made. Thank you.

[@meghansandor]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@neodlehoko404]

First I thank big daddeh algorithm for putting your channel in my path; I can’t wait to see what else is to come; all the topics you pinned for next time are sooo good. This era of history is kind of a newer hyperfixation for me but it’s got a lot to give. Now, I’d like to offer some food for your ongoing hyperfixation with a book I’ve just finished and I think you’ll just eat it up. (If you haven’t already). It’s called “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow (an Anthropologist and an Archeologist respectively); and their jumping off point is the enlightenment and specifically Hobbes and Russeouxs (fuck I can’t remember how to spell his stupid name right now I took French waaaayy too long ago 😭 ) philosophies of “Man” and “Nature” and all that. And they go into the salons of course and the influence of Europes “Explorations” on their society - particularly how key points of enlightenments questioning of authority came from Native Americans questioning explorers on their way of life - and they really dive into the Noble Savage idea and it’s implications. It’s sooooooo interesting. But also makes one wonder about what ways we’ve maybe made revolution harder for ourselves than it actually is. ((That goes back to *narratives as organising principles* and how certain narratives leave us purposely disorganised)). And it very much leaves you feeling way more optimistic about the possibilities of the present and the future; based off the past. It’s also a feminist master piece that wasn’t really trying to be a feminist master piece 😭 but I love when male authors remind people that organised women literally keep the world spinning. (Unlike some revolutionaries 🙄) Anyway, if you haven’t yet, please consider it for your library you won’t regret it. Thanks for the video!

[@meghansandor]

ooh that sounds like such a good book!! I love exploring how narrative shapes reality and serves to organize societies, for better or worse. I ate up "Sapiens" for that reason. Thank you for the recommendation, I'm definitely going to check it out. And thank you for the comment as well, and for sticking around! :)

[@Daveinbangormaine]

Good morning Meghan. This is such an important topic. I am wondering what influence did the church have on this?

[@meghansandor]

Ohhh I could do a whole separate video just on that. There were factions of the church that were pretty liberal, and it gets kind of complex because a lot of the time throughout Western history, the church and the monastery/cloister were safe havens for queer people. The church was also abolished during the Revolution, and then brought back again. It gets pretty complex!

[@Daveinbangormaine]

@@meghansandor thank you so much Meghan. I shared your video on Facebook and Twitter. I hope you have a great day.

[@iguana9173]

Are you getting both arms tattooed as sleeves or just the one arm?

[@meghansandor]

Just the one arm for now, but at some point maybe both!

[@iguana9173]

@@meghansandor that’s cool.

[@themysteriousnavi6850]

What I just want is for everyone to mind their own damn business and leave me alone! Especially with identity politics! I want to live a conservative lifestyle and NOT be forced to think about identity for five minutes, PLEASE!

[@thesaltybeard1793]

What happens if and when one of your kids decides they don't want to do that? That they're gay or trans or whatever else goes against your "life style"?

[@themysteriousnavi6850]

@@thesaltybeard1793 That's none of your business, now leave me alone!

[@thesaltybeard1793]

@themysteriousnavi6850 then... fuck off? Why you want us to leave you alone when you're the one yapping in the first place? Fucking baby.

[@bubu-nunu]

as long you don`t have real problems....