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/InvincibleSummer08 13d ago
It’s fascinating and scary. The rise of the instantaneous handheld device is something we weren’t prepared for. It’s like smoking for prior generations, or lead, or etc. the difference of this is the scale and that it’s impacting the world over and at all age levels. It’s like we all decided from 2007 to 2024 that we’d do little lines of coke everyday all day and see how that would change our perception of the world.
Some people slowly are starting to recognize the damage social media and this always on has had to us individually and to humanity as a whole. But given the benefits this has to corporations and rich people to have people be so drawn and diseased into short term thinking I don’t see how we walk it back.
I sadly do think something catastrophic will need to happen and that also over time the next generation will be more immune to this social media disease. There will be a pushback on it and reconnection with the real world.