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Kinsey, like every other social scientist since the Enlightenment, was simply obeying the central tenet of his discipline: that the scientific study of society is possible; that the results of such study are a better basis for policy than, say, the Mosaic interdiction against homosexuality.
Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.
It is this obsession and lust for knowledge that caused the human condition (suffering, evil, painful childbirth, etc.) in the first place: Eve's craving for enlightenment is what led her to eat from the tree of knowledge, after which God expelled her and Adam from paradise.
Reed called for racial "enlightenment" and predicted, "Bill will try to make that happen."
Luohans are followers of Buddha who achieve enlightenment but choose to stay on Earth to show others the way.