Obscurantism (French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, “darkening”) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two, common, historical and intellectual, denotations: 1) restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public, and, 2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness.[1][2]



Anti-obscurantist: Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522).
The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (Letters of Obscure Men), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I (1486–1519), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire; the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks' arguments for burning “un-Christian” works.

In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers used the term "obscurantism" to denote the conservative enemies, especially the religious enemies, of progressive Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal diffusion of knowledge. Moreover, in the 19th century, in distinguishing the varieties of obscurantism found in metaphysics and theology from the “more subtle” obscurantism of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy, and of modern philosophical skepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche said: “The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.” [3]

I was born in the era of obscurantism global!
tell us what things to leave to posterity?
What will they think of these centuries if there is ever a tomorrow?
What will they say of us?
What we place in history?
Shameful and reluctant, only memory traces
What will they say of us?
Of this empire and its subjects
bred and programmed only to produce profits?
All bowed down to crawl like worms
and I'm talking about millennia, millennia, millennia, and more!

I was born in the era of obscurantism global!

my story does not exist
is not written in any book
I was not here
I do not even live
when can I go for refuge in the midst of my fellow
because I know what I listen to say

I was born in the era of obscurantism global!

I hope those of us write does not make a distinction
We are all guilty of extinction!

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