• BashfulBob [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    the last dark age only happened in europe. most of the world was actually thriving at this time.

    You can find “Dark Ages” that have consumed various chunks of the planet, based on when certain central institutions of information collapsed.

    Mississippi culture in North America and the Mayan culture in Central America. The collapse of various East Asia dynasties. The sacking of Middle Eastern city states

    But we’re in a global manufacturing and information economy. If China and the US obliterate critical infrastructure in a war, South Africa doesn’t get to pick up on aeronautics or semiconductors or cosmetology where these two juggernauts left off. The info is lost and must be rediscovered.

    for a lot of us, the collapse of empire is a light at the end of the tunnel

    Nobody benefited when the Library of Alexandria burned.

    • xj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Nobody burned the library of Alexandria it probably died from neglect, but Europeans did burn ~every book ever produced in central america and extinguished hundreds of unique cultures and languages. Western culture is a dark age IMO. And I’m not saying dark ages don’t exist elsewhere. Europe may be fanatically xenophobic, but they aren’t entirely unique either. Just the most successful at spreading darkness.