A new Dark Age?

Reading the papers and articles and yes, posts here...I wonder if a new dark Age is soon to be upon us?

So many people seem to prefer to believe"things" not backed up by facts.

Whether it's the US 2020 election results, the proof that covid vaccines have a legitimate place in combating this disease or even that masks help.

Will we see a surge of pitchfork wielding crowds marching in the streets, tearing down everything they fear?

I get the feeling we're fast approaching a cross roads and the future is unclear...

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Graylight · 51-55, F

We will (not sure about the pitchforks, but I cease to be surprised), because they great underlying insidiousness of all this lying is that people don't trust anymore. They don't check things out for themselves, they don't vet sources, they simply reject out of hand what's told to them. And when you can't trust anybody, it's those closest to you who become your trusted sources. Far be it from me to say the US is full of the uneducated, but we've certainly had a bumper crop over the last decades. Playing the telephone game with such serious issues seems kind of reckless to me.

ozgirl512 · 26-30, F

@Graylight the pitchforks was a metaphor lol... But am those things you mentioned contribute to where we are right now