John—what's that phenomenon called? The comet tail or something like that?

In the 18th century, the philosopher Denis Diderot invented the Encyclopedia in the hope of ending all ignorance, and superstition. He was a leading figure in the self-named "Enlightenment" from which much of modern atheism springs. Now modern intellectuals have forgotten his name and work and pin their hopes for their own apotheosis on the modern equivalent, the internet—on which people check their horoscopes every day and YouTube!