Wally wrote:
"So, the references by the philosophers of the so-called Age of
Enlightenment, and especially the Primitivists, to the "Golden Age" of
Greece and Rome, should be stricken from the historical record. Makes it
much easier to blame them for everything."

Wally:
What an appalling lack of skills in logical, critical analysis leading to
WACS - Wild Ass Conclusions. How you can extrapolate such an imbecilic
conclusion simply defies imagination - which is to say, one remains fearful
of attempting to imagine 'thinking' in that manner out concern of getting
stuck in the quagmire. Of course they're exercising a version of the return
to golden age thinking IN CONTEXT of establishing a separate, distinct
strata, a new and original paradigm separating them from previous times. To
merely reduce them to an iteration of the same old theme without noting
their unique demarcation from previous versions constitutes specious
reasoning and no understanding of the meaning of the word history (un
histoire, nous allons appendre un histoire - a story; are all stories the
same merely because they are stories - probably so in your view of things).