"Characteristic for his opinion is this quotation from the preface to his essay of 1768 "that all the fuss doesn't come from anything other than vain fear, superstitious credulity, dark and eventful imagination and simplicity and ignorance among these people.""
Some things never change.
I work in a trade and some of these creatures are both of those, along with a healthy portion of willful ignorance, arrogance and apathy. I'm grateful I get to work mostly alone, but interacting with some is painful enough that it feels like a chore.