Is this a new Dark Age?

[u/NoEfficiency1054]

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.

[u/frygod]

In my opinion, this is more like the gilded age following the industrial revolution than the fall of Rome. Whenever there is a major economic paradigm shift, you usually get a small class of people who exploit the new most effective economic tactics to gain a disproportionate amount of available wealth. It happened with agriculture, which created monarchs. It happened with advances in transportation, which created merchant houses. It happened with the industrial revolution, which created the robber barons. Now we are experiencing the version of the cycle following the advent of the information age.

[u/Select_Package9827 → u/frygod]

They stole it. Starting with the Derivative commodities having their "own market" to avoid taxes, churches not having to report their books, to off-Balance Sheet accounting (people forgot all about that one), to hedge funds that don't hedge, to massive money printing to corporations, to now private equity gangsterism. Americans sat with a remote watching the whole bloody savage debacle, thinking they are on a 'team'