Perhaps post-enlightenment is a world where it becomes as difficult to hold 'unenlightened' beliefs in the real world as it is today in academia.
Is this Pinker's version of Harari's Homo Deus? Both were less inclined to go for the jugular wrt god. Now the gloves are off.
Market is meeting demands, the system seems to have enough flexibility to quell B/C/D, lean towards A / End-of-history - hard to argue against something that's dragging the remaining 3 billion to safety.
But I think it's D, air-conditioned biodome life on a cooked planet.