The enlightenment is built on the idea that people know how to run their lives. We need to push all of that aside and think for ourselves, he says. When we talk about living in an encounter enlightenment, the nanny state is an expression of the counter-enlightenment. The lockdown was an expression of thatcounter-enlight Enlightenment. Cancelled culture is an expression Of That Counter-Enlightenment. So it basically is about recovering some of those, that enlightenment self-confidence in ourselves.

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