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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe End of the American Dark Ages?
A thought-provoking piece from the Washington Post:
"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, rag-tag, spear-and-pole crusades. Heck, we even have a plague."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-re-living-in-the-new-dark-ages-and-it-s-time-to-turn-on-the-light/ar-AASi5Jb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
dchill
(38,532 posts)mopinko
(70,208 posts)it might be worse than the dark ages.
And in some ways, some of our worst thinking now especially with it comes to the coronavirus and anti-science ideas is far worse than anything folks did during the Black Plague. Its not like people were saying Lets go lick a rat, he said.
Dale in Laurel MD
(698 posts)which is sort of equivalent to vaccine refusal.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Back then.
But if I could time travel I'd kill every fucking asshole I could to stop the cat massacre. I would find other cat adorers who would like to stop that awful crime against those precious cats too.
And I would be as Sekhmet.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)the destruction of the cat population led to the Bubonic Plague. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. As the 60s song put it, when will we ever learn?
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread allegorical oracle.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)Thought it was a unique take that was intriguing.