No.<p>Modern man is a grub in the dark, awaiting illuminant flame.<p>You and yours are ignorant, confused, lazy, apathetic, usually a waste of your humanity.<p>The enlightenment isn't that its all so cool and we deserve it so much, it is that our finest hours must be carved out of our resistant, underprepared selves.<p>Behold, the lightning is the ascendency of Man<p>- thus spake Zarathustra<p>I take this to mean we must go beyond ourselves, and it is the illumination of our minds which close this gap.