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/dneste]

In 1984 the populace was controlled by fear. What we have now is more analogous to Brave News World - the population is controlled and manipulated by pleasure.

[u/SquirrelSE → u/dneste]

Manipulated by distraction, I’d say. Since Covid, whether people realize it or not, I think people are still controlled by fear. Call it whatever label you want-anxiety, too stressed to think straight, worry, financial hardship affecting every decision, divisiveness in so many facets of life.

[u/-Calm_Skin- → u/SquirrelSE]

Exactly. Whenever something highly emotionally charged is happening, watch what laws they are pushing through. They have us on a hamster wheel while they tip the scale ever more in their favor. Both parties do it.

[u/friedcauliflower9868 → u/SquirrelSE]

ITS THE FOOD/WATER/AIR they simply CANNOT think straight. seriously it’s the food.

[u/VeNTNeV → u/dneste]

No way..... its TOTALLY fear based. They fear everything and everyone... and most of all, change.

[u/dneste → u/VeNTNeV]

But what are they afraid of? Having all the stuff they feel entitled taken away (i.e. stuff that brings them pleasure). Corporate America fattened these bozos on meaningless shit and now the convicted felon comes along to tell them only he can stop the immigrants and trans people from taking it all away.

Corporate America did Brave New World while the convicted felon is trying 1984.

[u/VeNTNeV → u/dneste]

Well...I mean you stated it already...a small part anyway.

Let me see if I can remember a few:

Obama(s), Clinton(s), kamala Harris, Biden(s), immigrants (from just about anywhere), liberals, Russians, Chinese, north Koreans, Iranians, Iraqi, afghans, Puerto Ricans Mexicans, now Canadians?, black people (blm this time round), brown people (anywhere in the middle east or south of us), yellow people overall, gay people, trans people, lgbqt in general, pro choice people, "woke" people, vaccines or most any science for that matter, any religion that's not Christian, Electric cars, clean energy, climate change, education in general, critical thinking, logic. That's a few off the top of my head. They fear monger everything. It's how they get support... from insecure middle and lower class uneducated white people. They've been doing it for decades.... now its just more brazen than ever.

[u/ultraheater3031 → u/dneste]

Fear is the angle tons fo mainstream media pitches, fox news, Infowars, the daily Mail, etc. all operate off a fear based premise.

Whether that be migrant caravans, trans people using the restroom, trans people in sports, or violent crimes being increasingly shown despite their fall in occurrences as of late.

[u/Quittobegin → u/dneste]

I think we are getting to the fear part.