An Easier Time

So a couple of classes ago we were seperated into our groups and argued which was better: the pre or post enlightenment period. While most everyone will agree that the post enlightenment period has been better for everyone, I like to disagree. Yes, I do believe that post enlightenment has been an improvement in many ways, but not as many as most seem to believe. Before we were all hit with the wave of science and reason that has plagued this world we had something better to live for. We had something unquestionable and unfailing in our hearts. We had a more brutal punishment and more predetermined society, but less crime and less broken hearts. Though this may sound like the words of a pessimist, life has many low moments and occurences that everyone will and has faced. There are so many possibilities out there for a person that the chance of failure is also greatly increased. There are so many choices that we all have to make now that if we pick wrong can end up severely hurting us and/or others. There are just so many negative things that we are faced with today that were either non existent before the Enlightenment or significantly lower. Yes, you were more predetermined to stay at your position in society before the Enlightenment, but were you ever faced with the pressure to get out, or the stress and failure that moving up can very easily entail? I can't find myself disagreeing with pre Enlightenment because it seems like such a simpler time. Basic thoughts, basic beliefs, basic living. It just makes the world today all the more scary a place. I would also like to mention that most of the simplicities that were present then and not now are emotional. However, emotions run everyone and play the biggest part in one's happiness. Pre-Enlightenment made that much easier.