If the printing press ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, the internet brought us the Age of Entitlement.

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The Age of Enlightenment.

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Bestowed on me by the mystic of the age during my epic journal of enlightenment.

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It is probably no coincidence that the Humanitarian Revolution came on the heels of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village.

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That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.

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Since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, we have transformed our world.

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Death-penalty opponents originally considered their cause as a twin to that other great Enlightenment project, the abolition of slavery, and efforts to end both age-old practices ran at first in parallel.

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