Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I can't help but think we are sliding into a new Dark Ages, a collapse of reason, virtue, and common sense. I see it everywhere, in every forum of life, political, economic, religious, social...

Are we on the top of an inexorable slide into the backwater swamp of yet another failed civilization? How many centuries, how many generations, will it take for our posterity to climb back out of the pit we're slipping off into?

Critical thinking seems in short supply these days. In EVERY area. I'm only 43 years old, and I can tell you - things have changed over the last 20 years. People seem to have literally gotten demonstrably more st00pid across society.

Meh.

I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of our current situation but not sure if I would characterize what we are descending to as the Dark Ages as it relates to the previous Dark Ages. I am really not sure how to characterize it.

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by CC1

I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of our current situation but not sure if I would characterize what we are descending to as the Dark Ages as it relates to the previous Dark Ages. I am really not sure how to characterize it.

The former "dark ages" as some call it, was soon after the fall of Rome and by and large, was only a European problem.

Much advancement in art, technology, philosophy, mathematics, and etc. was seemingly lost during this era, until the Re-Birth, or Renaissance, when much was rediscovered.

It also refers to a time when, in esoteric mystery schools, human consciousness took a dive toward the materialistic and lost the ability to commune with the gods (or God, as one might have it).