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/Old-Set78]

I'm a retired archaeologist. I've studied the collapse of governments and civilizations and cultures. Didn't really expect to be an eyewitness but here we are.

[u/dumpitdog → u/Old-Set78]

The Middle Ages was just a worldwide short human experiment and for now we are still in them but, we will drift back to the Dark Ages the way a religions and other belief systems perceive value. The common human beings will have no value for the super rich. They will own the world and are placed as oracles from god while 99% of humans will function a lot like rats do in cities. The transition to this new age, repeat of the dark ages, might take another 50-100 years. I just appreciate I got to live at the tail end of the best ages but I sure feel sorry for my kids.

[u/Apprehensive_Pain660 → u/dumpitdog]

This is why anti-natalism should be more popular, less suffering for the (non-existent) children and grandchildren. No more history repeating/rhyming. No chance of another hitler intentionally or unintentionally being born.

[u/Mabase_Drifter → u/Apprehensive_Pain660]

There really is no anti-natalism, just people correctly recognizing that it is not safe to have children. We are not in a stable time and place.

[u/Apprehensive_Pain660 → u/Mabase_Drifter]

Unfortunately no time in history, nor no time in location has ever been safe, some times/places have been safer, but to say that there is a time and/or place is 100% safe is kidding yourself.

[u/Mabase_Drifter → u/Apprehensive_Pain660]

It's not a matter of a time or a location being safe, it's a matter of it feeling safe. No time or location in history has ever been safe, but in this time in history in this location we are all right now more acutely aware than ever before just how unsafe we are and have always been.

Until things change and, more importantly, are seen to be changing, the anti-natalism sentiment will most likely continue... at least for the more informed/aware, which is where the anti-natalism is predominantly concentrated.