Every future society puts the ideals, previously thought of as utopian, into practice.

I can overtly express what I see, what I think, and what I consider to be true.

Purity. Enlightenment.

The search for hard to vary explanations is the origin of all progress.

Today s Counter Enlightenment

But very enlightening.

And then to top it all off, you had all of these philosophers hanging around, talking about the Enlightenment.

Maybe people could essentially rule themselves all of a sudden.

Which is why the Scientific Revolution had to have a wider context.

He is a great Belgian thinker. Okay.

For the people, by the people.

And the consequence of that strategy is to block access to all but the few.

And that implies testability, the scientific method, the Enlightenment, and everything.

The advantages of dialogue are obvious.

I was Apple software evangelist.

The positive spin was this is consistent with the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Revolution.

In pre scientific days, creation myths were made to answer these questions, but they really were just made up stories.

Listen to other people, enlighten ourselves.

You can spray the problem is there are environmental issues.

Really? Well, perhaps Mr. Zarek could enlighten us.

And what you find is that, especially with creative people designers, programmers, writers, engineers, thinkers that people really need long stretches of uninterrupted time to get something done.

Same is true with, I think, all of these states you see on the top of the list.

It's this democratization of information that I think is an information enlightenment, and it has many of the same principles of the first Enlightenment.

I was inspired by the Danish Safety Council.

This is a turquoise lake.

Inner mongolia.

Obviously. See?

Idealist, huh?

They are locked out from our entire scientific legacy.

Water is number one

And, this is kind of more from the intellectual point of view.

He is as great a thinker as ever lived.

What's the definition of comedy?

He's delusional.

The phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is also something that derives from John Locke.

We're on the verge of amazing, amazing events in many fields, and yet I actually think we'd have to go back hundreds, 300 years, before the Enlightenment, to find a time when we battled progress, when we fought about these things more vigorously, on more fronts, than we do now.

Now they were doing it in part because they were part of an Enlightenment system where two things were growing up together.

Thought crime.

We don't achieve the objectives of the Enlightenment, we achieve the reality of an elite nment, the elite nment which describes the way in which we spread knowledge despite the ideals of the Enlightenment.

Babies flop out, they're flashing Mandarin flashcards at the things.

(Laughter)

Or perhaps they didn't own anything except for ... ... a single brilliant idea

The dharma initiative?

There's a Frenchman who can help, another thinker who didn't define comedy because he expressly didn't want to.

If you have a bout of depression, you'll go to the right side.