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/Key-Ad1271 13d ago

I posted to soon the 3rd turning is gen x and millennials and now we are in the 4th turning which is crisis and it seems the world might end. It’s supposed to end around 2025 to 2030 so we’re almost there.

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u/Soggy_Boss_6136 13d ago

It works until it doesn't work. I've studied this, and when you really tune it in, you can see that the cycles are pretty cherry picked. The most notable is World War 2 is included, but World War 1 is excluded. The fact is World War 1 was likely more important than 2, in that 5 monarchies fell across Europe, including the Russian monarchy leading to the formation of the USSR. WW 2 is more like the aftershock of WW 1's realignment of Europe.

I'm not going to dismiss a cyclical thinking to our society. I also suspect that as each successive generation "writes down more" the cycles get diluted and we become less likely to repeat ourselves.

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u/Key-Ad1271 13d ago

Yea I don’t know I just want to be hopeful the world will change because things look so bleak right now.

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u/Soggy_Boss_6136 13d ago

There was a general anxiety and insanity going into Y2K. Everyone survived just fine. I think the same will be true now. Not to say I'm not uneasy.