We're Living In The New Dark Ages, And It's Time To Turn On The Light

[skews13]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Let me be clear you are the last person that I would ever consider a source on what the Dark Ages are like…

 

[Concerned American]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Power and lights will be restored in November 2022.

 

[skews13]

Let me be clear you are the last person that I would ever consider a source on what the Dark Ages are like…

Thanks for highlighting the authors premise in the story with your reply.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It is embarrassing to see a purported professor of history confusing the middle ages with the Restoration.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Thanks for highlighting the authors premise in the story with your reply.

Yeah, and your author is a leftist that believe anyone that opposes DSA ideas are living in the Dark Ages…

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Yeah, it is about fucking time you dumbass progressives start moving into the future and stop using shit from the past. As for science are you creeps finally going to admit that men with tits shouldnt be in little girls bathrooms? Are you going to get away from the archaic energy of windmills and sundials? Are you morons going to realize that men poking men are animalistic?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Let me be clear you [skews13] are the last person that I would ever consider a source on what the Dark Ages are like…

I think he makes a pretty good example of the sort of near-human who would be representative of a dark-ages-type of culture.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

You really are a pathetic little soy boy. You live in fear of anyone you disagree with. At least in this thread you posted within the rules

Hanging with Tristan has made you a bigger pussy than he is.

 

[daveman]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

...says the guy who does little but try to generate fear of conservatives.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Check out the comments on the article linked in the OP. Here is one extreme left wrong-wing lies-and-propaganda site reposting an article from another extreme left wrong-wing lies-and-propaganda site, and as of this point in time, there's not a single comment that isn't mocking or disparaging the article. Even by the exceptionally-low bar set by pMSNBC and the New York Post, this piece goes too low even for their audience.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

It's just that everyone has found the internet and we've all met online.

It'll take us a while to get to know each other.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Power and lights will be restored in November 2022.

The Left hope so, they have EV's to plug in.

 

[Winston]

Yeah, it is about fucking time you dumbass progressives start moving into the future and stop using shit from the past. As for science are you creeps finally going to admit that men with tits shouldnt be in little girls bathrooms? Are you going to get away from the archaic energy of windmills and sundials? Are you morons going to realize that men poking men are animalistic?

Although I doubt you even read the article linked in the OP I want you to dispute the following,

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism,

A democracy functions best when there is a least a form of equality.

Where there is anything close to equal distribution of wealth, the more democratic government is, the better it will be. Where there is gross inequality in the distribution of wealth, the opposite is true. The more democratic government is, the worse it will be. To give the vote to people who must beg or steal or starve, to whom the chance to work is a favor — this is to invoke destruction. To put political power in hands embittered and degraded by poverty is to wreak havoc.

Progress and Poverty, Chapter 42

Henry George has much to teach us, and that was over 150 years ago.

But I also want to point to this from the article,

“We are now in an age when the folks at Silicon Valley turned on the fire hose spigot of information,” said Rubenstein, who organized a conference on conspiracy theories at USC this year. “There's too much of it, and not enough people are able to tell the good from the bad.

Many posters on this board are perfect examples of just that, you are among those at the top of the list. Facebook is the domain of the stupid. Websites that are mere clickbait, and nothing near journalism, plague the internet. They all depend on the ignorance of the American people, and they ride that ignorance all the way to the bank. They have no care to the damage they are doing to this nation, our democracy, and the very people that pay their bills. They are little more than narcistic barons overseeing their serfs, so yes, the dark ages all over again.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Correct.

And not just with regard to our education system, but with our political institutions as well.

We are in a true Dark Age of rightwing reactionaryism.

 

[Concerned American]

Although I doubt you even read the article linked in the OP I want you to dispute the following,

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism,

A democracy functions best when there is a least a form of equality.

Where there is anything close to equal distribution of wealth, the more democratic government is, the better it will be. Where there is gross inequality in the distribution of wealth, the opposite is true. The more democratic government is, the worse it will be. To give the vote to people who must beg or steal or starve, to whom the chance to work is a favor — this is to invoke destruction. To put political power in hands embittered and degraded by poverty is to wreak havoc.

Progress and Poverty, Chapter 42

Henry George has much to teach us, and that was over 150 years ago.

But I also want to point to this from the article,

“We are now in an age when the folks at Silicon Valley turned on the fire hose spigot of information,” said Rubenstein, who organized a conference on conspiracy theories at USC this year. “There's too much of it, and not enough people are able to tell the good from the bad.

Many posters on this board are perfect examples of just that, you are among those at the top of the list. Facebook is the domain of the stupid. Websites that are mere clickbait, and nothing near journalism, plague the internet. They all depend on the ignorance of the American people, and they ride that ignorance all the way to the bank. They have no care to the damage they are doing to this nation, our democracy, and the very people that pay their bills. They are little more than narcistic barons overseeing their serfs, so yes, the dark ages all over again.

You and your source's naivete is beyond pale. If you distributed all the wealth of this nation exactly equal to every resident of the country--it would take less than a week for the distribution to be virtually the same as it is today. The poverty stricken, for the most part, in this country are there by their own doing and giving them what the financially stable have would not change a thing.

 

[Oddball]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades?

The irony here is all of that crap is coming from fascist peckerheads like you.

 

[Ringtone]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Liberty has been characterized as benighted reactionism by the statist bootlicks of the political left for decades.

Same 'ol conformist imbeciles, same ol' song and dance.

 

[Unkotare]

...

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

That's pretty funny considering the democrats currently control the House, Senate, and White House. You're a clown.

 

[Anomalism]

Q: What was Dec. 31, 2021?
A: The end of the American Dark Ages.

Isn’t that what our nation has been stewing in these past few years — a medieval pottage of religious extremism, anti-science sneering, conspiracy theories and ill-conceived, ragtag, spear-and-pole crusades? Heck, we even have a plague.
“It’s straight out of a 14th-century playbook,” said Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in the high Middle Ages.

MSN

And we face a new wave of dangerous conservatism that is trying to spread more fear, and ignorance, in our education system.

Imagine sitting on your fat ass in front of a computer and bitching about living in the dark ages.