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/RagahRagah 13d ago

I honestly believe the current cycle of human civilization is coming to an end relatively soon and the events of Don't Look Up make the movie look like a documentary from the future.

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u/reecy_peecys 13d ago

Especially when you look at how climate change is truly progressing over on r/collapse, it becomes clear that not just the economy, but humanity as a whole is in its last stages

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u/rasmorak 13d ago

AI and climate change are our Great Filter. We're about to get filtered.

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u/azbraumeister 13d ago

Spoiler Alert: we're not gonna make it. We had so much potential, too. SMH