science

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.