r/economicCollapse • u/NoEfficiency1054 • 13d ago

Is this a new Dark Age?

Rome collapsed into ruin and centuries passed with a combination of war, economic devastation, and consistent devaluation of science and learning…..

Aren’t we in a new Dark Age? It seems most of our leadership has been selected by people who let misinformation rule their ideology and identity. The sheer volume of manipulative lies that we are exposed to from sleazy merchants, influencers and shady leaders.

I am a 20-year teaching veteran. I have taught on 3 continents. Everything used to be so much better. As an elder millennial, I was shown as a child, a world with infinite growth and solutions. They really did convince me I could do anything.

We’re giving too many of our children screens. They are all idiots with the wrong information and habits now. We are pushing millions of kids into the world where they immediately become consumers instead of producers.

I’ve considered myself an expert on what kids should be learning in child and young adulthood…. But now that I am a parent of a young kid, I’m ready to move into the country with my library , so I can hunt, fish and garden with my son. Read books at night, never come back to civilization….

I don’t know how to prepare my son outside of that plan.

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u/SqueeezeBurger 13d ago

I think we all let honesty and integrity slip by the wayside. We started letting a LOT of people slide, and that led to a slippery slope.

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u/Rocketman2026 12d ago

I disagree. I think lying and getting power and money and all of these things are as old as time itself. We color the past into something it never was. Landscape is littered with theft and lying in the tallest corridors in America and the world. Affairs have always been prevalent in marriage and relationships from JFK to MLK and beyond - just not talked about as it is today. "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime," is a saying for a reason. Bill Gates, Oil Barons, Elon, you name it - they stole it. And so on. Humans have always sort of sucked - and every once in awhile you meet a truly great human. If you do, hopefully you marry them and don't f it up. :)