A Devastating Critique, or, Enlightenment No More

[Rob MacKillop]

Another in my ongoing series on the demise of enlightened thought in Scotland's capital...



Canon AE1-P, XP2.

 

[Pete Askew]

Interesting if not somewhat obscure (and I do like a bit of obscure as you know). I'm assuming this to be part of the pedestal of the grave of some former deep thinker.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Not a person in particular, Pete. Edinburgh is often called the Athens Of The North, due to the Enlightenment movement at the time of Hume and others, which led to the New Town being built on Greco-Roman architectural principles. The fact that much of it is crumbling and neglected, in some places being reclaimed by nature, makes me think philosophically about the state of enlightenment thought here today.

 

[Dave Farnes]

That is another fine detail study, you do have a good eye for spotting the things most would miss.

You are considering enlightenment from a purely human perspective, but what of the spiders who build the webs? Maybe once the works of man have crumbled to dust, this will be the site of the wonderous Temple of Arachne.

 

[Brian Moore]

Its a bonnie fotie as well!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Haha, ta.