you're going to invoke evola, spengler, or carlyle and miss their entire point. go back further to the german counter-enlightenment and read their critiques.  we're anti-enlightenment because there's is more to life than the material. there are things human reason cannot quantify that must be filled with something spiritual.  do you need a scientific study to tell you pedophilia is wrong? people who do are more common than is comfortable.  if your iphone faggot machine was twice as fast tomorrow, would it make you happy? is life's purpose to be happy? if you could make all these fortune 500 companies double in value overnight, but you have to trade your nation's spirit and ethnic identity away, is that worth it? you can't quantify everything and you can't measure the health of a society, it's something you feel and see.
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