“Enlightenment values” is spiritual boomerism. It’s shallowness, social contract theory, rationalism, and self-celebration. And, ah yes, the two options: *bad things* and *my ideas.*
Today I learned the people who make pure silicon are basically the Samurai sword makers and master blacksmiths of our era and that even if China gets Taiwan they wont be able to make chips anywhere near as good as the US can because we have the purest quartz in the world.