[What people are calling "The Enlightenment"] is the exact opposite of the [E]nlightenment. Maybe we need a new [Enlightenment]? Don't you think?

[T]he introduction of Buddhism to the West is what caused it, like [one says] Nietzsche and Kant. The actual [E]nlightenment was what came before it. That's the beginning of Modernism what [they're] describing. 

Generally, The Enlightenment was established in the Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, and based itself in reason and sound first principles. Fortunately, we still have its tradition preserved in the Constitution and Declaration, but in the phrase "We hold these truths to be self evident" [t]here's no admission of subjectivity, as "Self Evident" is not "Subjective" but rather based in first principles of something being of itself evident, which is how Geometry works. You read in Thomas Jefferson's letters, or Locke the cusp of the Enlightenment, which was philosophy based in sound and evident first principles, that were apparent to the learned, but maybe not the unlearned.

Descartes was famous for saying, "I think therefore I am" but the whole point of that, was to establish a true set of knowledge. Like Descartes was a Mathematician, and framed the Quadratic Equation in its modern incarnation. He was not afraid to claim there's objective knowledge. 

I'd actually say Nietzsche and Kant were the beginning of Modernism, as Modernism is the exact opposite of the Enlightenment, which it opposes that there's any true knowledge beyond the material. And Postmodernism objects to there being knowledge at all. 

The Enlightenment was man first discovering there was knowledge, and then giving that fire to the people, like Prometheus. I mean, the entire Enlightenment was of course created by the Masons, who founded that there was knowledge. That's why The French Revolution deified Reason. 

I don't know... something smells fishy about this.

I see lots of fireflies, they just have a short gestation period. About two or three weeks, that's all they're out for. Usually between June and July. Most insects are only spawning for a short period. Dragon Flies are no different. First comes the Horse Flies and House flies around Mayday and they peak around Memorial Day, and then the Dragon Flies come out and gobble up lots of them from July into August, that lasts about two months. The Mayflies are also usually only out around August and September--ironically because they're called "mayfly" but aren't out very long. Ticks also come out for a short period, about two months. I've observed that for close to seven years now. The Fire Flies aren't out for very long, and most people just aren't outdoors during the summer anymore, so they miss them. Now House Flies have a long gestation period, and so do Mosquitoes. But horseflies are usually dormant in Late August or Early September.

There are really two things being done in Calculus equations, which we've understood primarily for a long time--as pi was understood using hexagons and area, which intuited to the curve of the circle, and brought us the area of a circle formula.

The first thing being done in any Calculus equation, is bits of blocks being calculated in a repeating pattern, to draw out a ratio of the curve--which will be calculated further through the rates of change and differentials--and these blocks will intuit a pattern, which divide by the entire shape, and then result in the correct answer.

The second thing being done in a calculus equation, is intuiting the area beneath a curve. Such as a x^2 parabola, is always 1/3 of the two dimensions. And in more difficult equations, the differentials and rates of change combine, to form into a curve, which then get intuited by the the first described process, to receive an area beneath the curve. As, this area can be used for any quadratic function, and its area, which possess innumerable uses as a form of logic, but always forming correct uses. 

There’s tiers of intelligence. I’m just going to go over them.

1.Reactive. It just moves according to stimuli.
2.Interactive. It interacts with things in its environment.
3.Communitive. It understands how to socialize with other lifeforms.
4.Extra-communitive. It forms into social hierarchies and communities and forms social behaviors.
5.Existential. It has an awareness of self. And possibly a sense of humor.
6.Extra Existential. It not only has an awareness of self, but also has an ego—will look into a mirror is an example of this.
7.Creative. It has cathexis, and needs creative activity to keep it interested. Elephants and Dolphins are the only animals known to have this so far. Not even Chimpanzees. Maybe Rats.

Now above this, only humans have.

8. Reason. The ability to put things together, and build upon them to higher principles, and find things through putting things together in new ways.

9. Judgment. The ability to correctly identify right and wrong.

10. Logos. The ability to not only judge and reason, but correctly interpret patterns and understand them the right way.

11. Prophetic. The ability to construct patterns, and predict them. Which is what Calculus does, actually. You need a Prophetic Intelligence to understand it. (I don’t mean “Prophet” as in a Bible Prophet, but rather someone who can understand and predict behaviors and trends before they happen, by analyzing previous data. Or an ability to form conclusions with incomplete data.)

Some people have high IQs but lack certain kinds of intelligence, and some people have lower IQs but have the higher cognitions. It’s really not about IQ, but your capacity. And unfortunately, having a High IQ doesn’t always correlate with having higher forms of cognition. It really only measures Reason.

I’d also say, some people only come to tier 6. So, there are some animals that are more intelligent than humans. But, humanity has a moral worth the animals don’t. I don’t know how to quantify that, but it’s not necessarily intelligence that makes us human, but God’s image being borne in us. That’s the only thing I can say… and why humanity has a moral worth higher than all other life forms on Earth.

As a writer of sci-fi myself, people tend to think something's "Not Realistic" when in fact it follows the proverb, "A bit dog howls."

Unfortunately, this is happening in real time, and the internet is the cause of it. Too many simplistic conversations, and while I don't believe it's caused by ill breeding, what it is caused by is information overload, and moving people from topic to topic.

Just for reference, in the past 3 months, there was an assassination on a CEO which was forgotten instantly, then a Black Hawk Helicopter that crashed into an Air Liner, and then a near disastrous episode where the president of Ukraine and Trump had a violent disagreement on Live TV.

So, just for reference, I think the movie has some extremely prescient thoughts regarding reality, and at the time it was released, in 2005 these problems were nascent, and you have to see the issue through Mike Judge's eyes, that it was spurred on by two people fighting at Disney, with strollers nearby. You have to see the tyranny of the Corporations threatening it with lawsuits for criticizing them... Which should never happen in a free country, as if you can't criticize power--including corporations--you have a real problem on your hand.

The show and all the controversy surrounding it, shows the lead up to what is happening right now. In stark nakedness.

There's like a really interesting logic puzzle that proves this. I see it on Quora all the time. But, it's +- because when you multiply the same number together, you can turn out different answers if it's either negative or positive, when you have sums involved. And that +- also comes from the two dimensions of a square. You get a 0 integer in cubes, which relates to the augmentation of i. So 0, +- are three separate dimensions.



Something like 



x - y = 6

y*y= 16

x + y = ?



The x can be different numbers. If y is -4 then x is 2, and if y is + 4 x is 10. That represents the quadratic expression. So the third equation can be either -2 or 14.



[Also] a cube will always retain its positive or negative signs. 8^3 can't be both -8 and +8, it'll always keep its negativity or positivity. But the two can cancel out in the quadratic function, and leave you with a quadratic and leave you also with a third dimension zero expression. That's how Cubic Equations work. That's why. [This is] something I learned in grade school.  [W]hat's infinite about a cubed number? And that's also why i doesn't exist in cubic numbers, but it does again in quartic. Omega shouldn't even be involved with it.

Well, someone’s got to fish, right? So we have fish on plates. And those fishermen need nets, and they need tackle, and they need boats. So, when it’s stormy out, they can’t fish, but their nets, if in disrepair, won’t catch the fish even if it’s sunny. So, instead of being idle, and letting their property go into disrepair, they spend the time mending their nets, and boats and being prepared for when they can go fishing. As time is the most crucial part of economics, and how you use it is the catalyst to success or failure.