Dear Charles, Prince of Wales

Prince Charles, longtime enemy of anything that threatens to make him work for a living, has decided to state his categorical opposition to the Enlightenment. Rather than simply live out his days as the useless appendage of a withered monarchy (i.e. parasite), he has taken it upon himself (and his narrow, aristocratic shoulders) to save the world from reason. The enlightenment, remember, was the movement to see what reason and logic had to say before making dumb decisions. Rather than cry to the empty heavens for advice, people decided to figure things out with their brainmeat in some systematic fashion.


No more, cries Prince Charles, at a conference on green building methods.


“We cannot go on surely like this, just imagining that the principles of the Enlightenment laid down in the eighteenth century still apply now.  I don’t believe they do. But if you challenge people who hold the Enlightenment as the ultimate answer to everything, you do really upset them.” 

Two things:

1. 1) These people might be upset because you are one step away from advocating a return to scrying and augury as a means to solve problems, and
2. 2) If this is not what you mean, and you came to these decisions via some kind of ordered thought process, YOU ARE USING THE TOOLS OF THE ENLIGHTMENT.  It's like saying "Now that my infection has been successfully treated, I can devote my full attention to banning antibiotics.