I know I am. I wasn’t even born 100 years ago.
See, I didn’t even know that about you. I’m more enlightened than I was 10 seconds ago!
things are way better for women and minorities than they ever were… which is saying something as things are still comparatively bad
No they’re obese.
3 comedy points.
People have access to more information, but less access to tough life lessons, and therefore less experience (ranging from survival skills, to applied political science, etc.).
Is being “enlightened” mean you have more (possibly fake) information, or does it mean having more life experience? You decide…
Looking at widespread corruption and material worship, I’d say they are about the same.
define enlightened using your own words not via a google search
Me, I’m specifically referring to the enlightenment. Now I would say that some of their ideas haven’t aged well but that is kind of a hat on a hat. The following summarizes it better then my dopey ass ever could:
Use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions and to bring about humanitarian reforms
in regards to that definition then: yeah, I’d say people are, on the whole, more enlightened than they were a century ago. the scientific method is more thoroughly accepted/baked in at a societal level, and the mass adoption of digital communication facilitates a greater sense of community… though the resulting communities are often at odds with each other.
In general, probably.
Locally, depends on the locality
They are educated more. The opposite of enlightenment.
Why the downvoting?
People of today know a lot about everything. Yet we still have wars, pointless diseases born out of ignorance, discrimination beyond belief, causing people to even want to undergo surgery to escape, so much hate.
We know so many things, and we ignore it all. The opposite of enlightenment. We live in ignorance. And we celebrate ignorance.
Healthy at any weight, right? Fuck evidence to the contrary.
