Enlightenment dies when authoritarianism rears it's ugly head, and that's by design. You can't have stupid throngs of submissive and yet violent masses without #antiintellectualism .
#Polish people talk about how the #nazi occupation would persecute their intellectuals, to subvert the Polish expert class. That's also how the #colonizers and #slavers destroyed #Africa.
They don't come for the #guns first, they come for the experts, the #literature and #acedemia