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Review of Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century. Points:

0:00 Rationalism attacked religious orthodoxy
4:20 Progress is not inevitable...regress is possible
5:00 Religious Belief in Inevitable Evil Here vs. Rationalists Belief in Possible Utopia Here
7:30 Malthus (population control) and yet Left are pro-Welfare
9:00 Rousseau Cult of Nature
10:20 Progress not by Technology but by Literature & Our Ideas
12:33 Kant argued that morality can be found in Nature