Modern secular thought excludes doctrines that reject industrial societies’ superiority.

Evidence

As Ernst Gellner put it with his usual brevity and straightforwardness, “if a doctrine conflicts with the acceptance of the superiority of scientific-industrial societies over others, then it really is out” (Gellner, 1968:405). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 371

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures modernity’s self-insulating epistemic boundary: anything challenging industrial civilization’s superiority is dismissed as irrational.