PB: I would urge you to pull back on the pessimism and despair. We may yet turn this around.

The average person in the HAN Dynasty had a much worse life than we have (though I realize that you exaggerate to make a point here).

Oh, and being concise and accurate is hardly “counting the angels on the head of the Enlightenment pin”. This is just evading matters. It is particularity important to get matters clear here because the left wields this “Enlightenment” construct of theirs as a club against their opponents.