The New Dark Age.

I believe that we are currently living in one of the most dismal of Dark Ages known to man. While technology has largely liberated mankind from many of his past ties to the earth and nature, kin, race, family, and tradition, it continues to besiege him in a spiritual vacuum. Thinking has become impossible, and I would estimate that very few can any longer think. We are continually besieged by power mad individuals, a media that endless spews vacuous content at us, and a society faced with moral decline. I see such a period including the rampant consumerism that accompanies it as the sign of a new Dark Age, far worse than any of the so-called European dark ages. It could last hundreds, possibly thousands of years.