Are we entering a new Dark Ages period?

[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.