The New Dark Age

[BunnyMcGee]

We’re Going to Have a New Dark Age — Unless We Have a New Enlightenment

We Need to Get Serious About Fixing the Future If We Don’t Want it to Get Much Worse, Faster

If things feel grim out there, it’s because they are. We’re entering a new Dark Age, and we need a series of Enlightenments to fight our way out of it. Or else it’s lights out for our civilization. If you doubt me, take a hard look at the world’s richest country, America — which is essentially a poor country descending into ignorance, hate, and fascism, all over again. America teaches us where we might all end up, if we’re not careful: caught in a cycle of economic despair, the fascist hate it breeds, and the denial that allows it to flourish.
How did we get here, to this grim and strange juncture in history? There’s a certain person in the world whom I’ve come to have a great deal of respect for, in the midst of this crisis. Listen to what he had to say about our current era:
“For the first time in 30 years, poverty is rising. Human development indicators are declining.”
“Huh?” You might say, baffled. “So what?” But to an economist like me, that spells deep, deep trouble. It tells me that our global economy no longer works, in the most profound ways possible. Think about what the above really means with me for a moment — let me put in context.
You might think, like some Americans still do: “well, at least destroying the planet and letting billionaires duck taxes made us rich!” The truth is that it didn’t even do that. In fact, now we are getting poorer. That is what “poverty is rising” means.



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Something I found and thought I'd share.

[Goonch]

1. fascist hate it breeds

[The Wizard]

2. Living wage jobs

change the equation.

[appalachiablue]

3. US middle class that's almost extinct; big changes have to made.

[ck4829]

4. K&R