People begin to prioritize freedom over security, diversity over uniformity, autonomy over authority, creativity over discipline, and individuality over conformity. Emancipative values may also be called liberal values, in the classical sense related to “liberty” and “liberation” (rather than the sense of political leftism).

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 224