I and my people, great masses of them, are unenlightened and uneducated. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy. This is one of the fundamental dichotomies which are perceived by the unenlightened. The enemy has an unenlightened intellect, not based on reason. Only an unenlightened jurisprudence condemns an individual without according him those rights. The Hobo represents an unenlightened person searching for meaning. They initially dismiss the environment as, respectively, out of date, decadent and unenlightened. Unenlightened self-interest can result in the tragedy of the commons. British lodges assigned themselves the duty to "initiate the unenlightened".