I chose to talk about the second option, or option B for the enlightenment era. This option talks about two authors and their opinions of the enlightenment. They stated that the enlightenment quote, “dischanted us from the world” which I believe means that took away what was really happening in the world and made it seem like all was good so to speak. I don’t think we should rob life of its charm, in fact sometimes we need to let life slide and just go with the flow of things. They say that the enlightenment is the “ultimate authority” and that “the enlightenment does away with self-knowledge” which in my opinion means that we can’t think for ourselves and that we have to be taught how to have an opinion. I don’t think we know just how much the self helps us think. The only way to do this is through enlightenment through art. “Rationality and science are used to control people” are what the two authors said about the enlightenment. I guess they kind of have a point because when I think of science controlling people I think of what happened to Japan during WWII. The Japanese were not doing what they were told so the United States decided to make them obey using a good old fashioned atomic bomb. This scenario ties in with the last point the two authors made was that “all man made calamities started when man decided to be a ruler.” The atomic bombs were a very serious decision to make, which lead to a lot of controversy of whether or not they really should have done what they did with them. This comes back to the critical thinking aspect of things. Did the person who said yes to the release of the atomic bombs really know what they were doing when they said the word yes? I will let you ponder about it and decide.