The Enlightenment came when we realized everything we’ve been doing the past like 10,000 years is wrong, we’ve been just throwing caution to the wind to appease the church and get into heaven. It brought about the scientific method, the Industrial Revolution, and the age of computers.

It’s what taught us to measure the material world, proportion belief to evidence, … but it’s also what put the onus on us to do that. When we do it poorly, politically, to deceive, or not at all — we break the integrity of the system from which we mold our entire way of life; our “enlightened” way of life.

I am not sure what’s more likely, that we failed the initiative of the Enlightenment or that we were arrogant enough to believe it could cure our arrogance.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It's curious, I'm not sure if this is the last throes of those forces that were fighting against The Enlightenment or just another in the endless battles of good vs. evil, I suppose it's ridiculous to think it will ever be won or things will ever be perfect but they could certainly be much better for more people. I mean, I'm just as guilty, I was taught and thought that we had solved a lot of these problems already, or were on our way to, and I believed it.