Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
History
These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?
I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.