A tangle of charcoal marks unfolds across this medium-scale work on paper, channeling the restless, carnivalesque energy that defines Angela Dufresne's practice. Rendered in 2020, the drawing engages Enlightenment ideals with a tone that is simultaneously reverent and sardonic, invoking the philosopher Denis Diderot as a kind of beloved, flawed ancestor. The title itself performs this ambivalence, pairing a bleak diagnosis of modernity with an affectionate, almost exasperated tenderness toward the intellectual tradition that helped produce it. On the verso, a handwritten inscription in pencil reinforces this duality, acknowledging the unavoidable limits of Enlightenment thinking while refusing to fully abandon its promise. Dufresne works across painting and drawing with a vocabulary rooted in art history, queer theory, and the pleasures of visual excess, and this charcoal piece distills those preoccupations into a more intimate register. The medium rewards close looking, with the physical pressure and sweep of the artist's hand embedded directly in the surface. At 57.2 by 78.7 centimeters, the work occupies a scale that feels both immediate and considered, suited equally to a study or a dedicated exhibition wall. The piece is signed by the artist and offered through the Food Bank For New York City Benefit Auction, connecting its acquisition to a meaningful act of civic support. For collectors drawn to works that hold contradiction with wit and genuine feeling, this drawing represents a particularly compelling entry point into Dufresne's ongoing conversation with the history of ideas.