Don't You Think?

   If the early free thinkers and discoverers, like Galileo, could see what has been learned since their time, and use the technology that we now have at our service, do you think they would willingly run back into the dark ages; a time where passed-down whims and fears were rampant, human thought was suspect, and the very idea of "individual thought" or even "pleasure" were met with violent suspicion? No! I think they would be running freely toward the future and away from the dark; constantly learning and yearning for more, invoking in themselves a genuine gratitude for what has been discovered, and a mystical and reverential humility for what is not yet known. Don't you think?