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Enlightenment, Knowledge, and Culture

(中文版原文連結)

(Translated from the Mandarin version with the help of GPT-4)

The British Museum, as the world’s first museum open to everyone, carries with it many historical burdens. The provenance of many of its collections cannot be separated from the colonialism and invasions of the British Empire at the time. Interestingly, in the food alley directly opposite the museum’s main entrance, over half of the restaurants serve foreign cuisine (especially a lot of Asian food). Among them, there’s a shop specializing in the famous British snack, Fish and Chips, which is surprisingly owned by a Korean!

A few months ago, I spent a day wandering through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with my family. So, when I opened the map of the British Museum, at first glance, I thought it was a copy-paste. Especially after touring the Egyptian section, besides the many anonymous mummies (and mummified cats) and the Rosetta Stone, I wasn’t particularly impressed, given my limited exposure. After all, it’s not easy to encapsulate the 3,000-year history of ancient Egyptian culture. These world-renowned museums can only focus on specific dynasties. Each time I stepped out of an exhibit, I always felt puzzled, trying to decipher from which perspective I was viewing these fleeting moments of human history and civilization.

Before hunger struck, I decided to take a look at the smaller Age of Enlightenment exhibit. I still vividly remember how the Age of Enlightenment tortured me countless times in high school history classes. Among the 12 questions I got wrong in my college entrance exam, I’m pretty sure one was about the Age of Enlightenment. However, I at least knew that Britain played a leading role in the world at that time. This trip to the British Museum should be a good opportunity for me to reacquaint myself with this crucial period in modern human history!

The towering wooden bookshelves and display cabinets on both sides made me feel as if I was in an ancient library. The sparse number of visitors allowed me to finally set my own pace. The introductory plaque at the entrance briefly mentioned how people transitioned their methods of organizing knowledge during the Enlightenment. They moved from a medieval focus on religion and theology to methodologies of collection, classification, and organization. Such a straightforward explanation might have been quickly forgotten by my past self, but this time, it deeply intrigued me. As I slowly scanned the titles on the bookshelves, I wondered how anyone could read ten books about some obscure island’s travelogue. At the same time, I marveled at the determination and passion of those in the Age of Enlightenment who wrote countless thick volumes on a wide array of unique topics.

I conclude that there is no thing constantly observable in nature, which will not always bring some light with it, and lead us further with the knowledge of her ways of working.

- John Locke

Under the pampering of the modern education system, it wasn’t until the latter years of my PhD studies that I began to realize the difficulty of acquiring knowledge, and how many things that seemed obvious were anything but. It wasn’t until I started pushing the frontiers of human knowledge that I genuinely felt the bewilderment of choosing a direction in a vast ocean.

Now, in an age dominated by science, has the way we think and form knowledge once again hit a dead end? Firstly, we no longer have the courage and opportunity, like those in the Age of Enlightenment, to drop everything in our youth, travel the world, record our observations, and collect, synthesize, and deduce knowledge. Secondly, specific modes of thinking tightly grip our minds, causing us to subconsciously think in familiar, comfortable patterns. Faced with the dilution of information quality and the explosion of its quantity, do we need a new Age of Enlightenment? Or perhaps, unbeknownst to us, this movement has already quietly begun.