No.
Modern man is a grub in the dark, awaiting illuminant flame.
You and yours are ignorant, confused, lazy, apathetic, usually a waste of your humanity.
The enlightenment isn't that its all so cool and we deserve it so much, it is that our finest hours must be carved out of our resistant, underprepared selves.
Behold, the lightning is the ascendency of Man
- thus spake Zarathustra
I take this to mean we must go beyond ourselves, and it is the illumination of our minds which close this gap.