And thus began the second dark age. In the 21st century, the election of Donald Trump triggered a chain of events that ceased scientific progress globally. Environmental stewardship gave way to rampant consumption and dirty industry. Women once again became subjugated to property and lost all human rights. Logic and reason was forgotten and replaced with conspiracy theories and superstition. Over the next few centuries tribalism and the decay of modern society played out against the backdrop of now unstoppable climate change, which was largely attributed to superstitious causes by small groups of devolved humans living in filth amongst the ruins of a once great civilization.
And thus began the second dark age. In the 21st century, the killing of the internet famous squirrel P’Nut and their partner Fred triggered a chain of events that ceased scientific progress globally. Environmental stewardship gave way to rampant consumption and dirty industry. Women once again became subjugated to property and lost all human rights. Logic and reason was forgotten and replaced with conspiracy theories and superstition. Over the next few centuries tribalism and the decay of modern society played out against the backdrop of now unstoppable climate change, which was largely attributed to superstitious causes by small groups of devolved humans living in filth amongst the ruins of a once great civilization. ~ Narrated by Ron Pearlman
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Oh, I know this one. A country’s democracy suffers manipulation by international interests, paving the way for fascism that ravages their way of life. It’s called The Rest of the World and you’re not the first one to do it.
Read up and take notes if you want to navigate these waters, they’ve already been charted.
Yeah, but we’re also the most powerful military in the history of the world armed to the eyeballs with nukes.
This is worse.
the election of Donald Trump triggered a chain of events that ceased scientific progress globally
This is hyperbolic.
There’s more to the world than the USA. And even during the first Dark Ages, scientific progress didn’t cease globally. Just in Europe.
There was quite a lot of progress in mathematics and science in the Middle East during the so-called Dark Ages.
Of course, it wasn’t meant as an accurate prediction, more an expression of sentiment.
Ha, no its not.
The united states will use its considerable economic power to influence elections and laws globally. It already does it africa.
Europe is next.
We don’t know how scorched the sky, but we do know who neutered everyone.
You’ll pry my balls from my cold, dead hands.
Maybe it will be a cyberpunk future.
Cyberpunk isn’t glamorous. It’s a warning
Oh. Well maybe instead it will be a glorious future like Starship Troopers where we spend our days and lives fighting off vicious alien bugs before they manage to develop the technology necessary to destroy us!
For the record, modern historians don’t use the term “Dark Ages”.
If we ever recover from this, future historians will.
Oh, cool. It’s the first dark age.
And likely the last one.
That’s a bit too dark for me
Oh, act your age
Yes, the first, and also known by future historians as the “Darkest Age,” for some reason. I should’ve asked.
Couldn’t think of a better label this morning for how I felt. What would you suggest?
I am not talking about present day. I couldn’t possibly know what this era will be called in a millenia. I’m just spreading the info that “Dark Ages” isn’t the preferred term for the early middle ages.
