kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
which works a lot of changes in the mass market for stories, sure, but it's worth mentioning that the enlightenment was an effort to open up ideas that had previously been husbanded by an elite to the masses