{"product_id":"9780998903705","title":"Age of Wisdumb","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter playing heroic roles in liberating us from the tyranny of European monarchies, Thomas Paine turned his revolutionary genius upon the moral tyranny of the Church, and published \u003cem\u003eAge \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eof \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eReason\u003c\/em\u003e. Around the same time, Jeremy Bentham detailed a brilliant alternative foundation for our morality. It seemed we were at the dawn of a Golden Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut The Enlightenment stopped enlightening two centuries ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAge \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eof \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWisdumb\u003c\/em\u003e exposes how ancient belief memes still infect modern society and what this means in terms of objective truth determination. The religious continue to propagate these lies in a cycle of abuse; its young victims bullied into believing the unbelievable and loving the unlovable, like Winston Smith in \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e. We cannot trust our heartfelt convictions or ethical assumptions. Good and evil are merely ‘dogmatism in disguise’. Once this masquerading authority is dismissed we can see with devastating clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy extending the New Atheist dialogue into Utilitarianism, we abandon the theist’s supernatural objective morality in favor of a super natural moral objective. With ‘right’ and ‘rights’ as outputs but never inputs, our calculus hints at a Liberal Manifesto to create a more progressive, caring, and rewarding society. Perhaps then we can put a heart in a heartless world, a soul in a soulless condition, and we won’t need Marx’s opium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Do Not Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030162227440,"sku":"9780998903705","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780998903705_p0.jpg?v=1763959382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998903705","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}