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Western society displays the classic symptoms of a civilisation in decline. It is destined
to collapse--just like every other civilisation there has ever been. The world will then enter a new dark age.
This will be a time of great turmoil, suffering and insecurity. It will also be a time of opportunity and creativity.
When the dark age ends, other nations and races are likely to take up the baton of human progress. They will lead
the world in a new era of tremendous achievement.
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What is a dark age?
Very long term history
A recurrent and global phenomenon
The history of dark ages
A theory of history and society
Why dark ages occur
A world of contradictions
Evidence that we are moving
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Notice: Future of Dark Age Watch.
We are continuing the work of Dark Age Watch at two new sites, although we are not yet able to guarantee daily
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The new dark age watch: same concept as the old dark age watch.
History and society: a presentation of dark age theory.
Scottish
Nationalist Party Plan 1 million pound Toll For Trident: "AN SNP-LED Scottish Executive would openly challenge
the government's decision to renew Trident by imposing a £1 million toll on every warhead transported in
nuclear convoys." Internal discohesion-international disintegration coupling, if implemented. The SNP
is not yet in charge, though.
posted on 21.1.07
Frontline
troops are refused kit to fight Taliban: "British soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan have had
dozens of urgent requests for operational equipment turned down on cost grounds, it can be revealed. Demands by
officers for attack weapons and vital tools, as well as night-vision equipment and thermal-imaging devices used
to distinguish friend from foe, have all been refused by the Ministry of Defence." Internal disorganisation-international
disintegration coupling The dark age team finds this one difficult to understand - and let's remember it's
only a newspaper story so not entirely trustworthy - but it suggests how economic failures (or government mismanagement?)
are compromising the UK ability to contribute to the western hegemonic role. The days of effortless domination,
when it was the Gatling gun against spears and blowpipes, are long gone. **
posted on 21.1.07
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Proposal to Ban Spanking Sparks Debate "A (California state legislator, Sally Lieber) says she will submit
a bill next week...proposing that California become the first state in the nation to make spanking of children
3 years old and under a misdemeanor. Penalties could include child-rearing classes for offenders to one year in
jail...." I have to question why our society holds so tightly to physical discipline among the very young,"
said Ms. Lieber, who does not have children." It seems that in our socially atomized, and affluent post modern
world, our thinking about the most primordial of relationships, that of parent and child, has become increasingly
removed from the most authentic human necessity of that relationship which is in the end, existence, propagation
and survival. In the coming dark age, when considerations such as these once again become the overriding purpose
of the human family, the fashionable affectations of our present era concerning many things, including child rearing,
will be remembered as the vague fables of a long lost age, if they're even remembered at all. ** This is difficult
to classify. We have seen this trend before. In the time of the Roman republic, the paterfamilias had the right
of life and death over his sons and his servants. As time wore on, the Roman state increasingly interfered, protecting
the rights of slaves and youngsters. Is this something to do with integration - the state's insistence on a monopoly
of force? Or is it to do with cohesion becoming more widespread but more diffuse? At any rate, we can say that
it is a familiar path trod on the way from ascendancy to decadence.
posted on 21.1.07
 Revealed: march of the new casinos
"The commission is considering applications for a further 57. Industry insiders predict there will soon be
more than 200 casinos in Britain, double the number when Tony Blair came to power." non-organisation
Here too, British society has been "following" recent trends in Russia. The gambling "industry"
involves no innovation and contributes to growing wealth differentials.
Row over anti-rocket defence
"FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer has raised the prospect of Australian commercial airliners being ordered
to carry missile evasion technology to protect passengers from terrorists using shoulder-launched rockets."
Expanding world (international disintegration) Temporary alarmism or an issue that will continue
to bother security planners?
Arsonists target medical centre "A
medical centre has been targeted in an overnight arson attack in north Belfast." Internal disintegration
Such news is not an exception but has become normality in Northern Ireland, which continues to lead western Europe
into the dark age.
posted on 21.1.07
U.S.-style rehabs take root
in China "Across China, there are more than 200 voluntary drug rehab centers...When the Communist Party
assumed power in 1949, it cracked down on what it said were 20 million drug users, who had been helped along in
their addiction by foreign drug traders, especially British opium sellers. But in the 1980s, the opening and reform
of China's economic policies and the relaxation of border controls allowed drug trafficking to resume, much of
it coming in from Southeast Asia." A sign of accelerated decline? When the European powers
forced China to open its ports, the Middle Kingdom found itself in a deep crisis. Time will tell on what foundation
China's present rise is built.
posted on 21.1.07
Report: Iran massing
troops at Iraq border Wars coming soon Impending shocks to the system?
posted on 21.1.07
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"The world is one great city, and the substance out of which it is formed
is single, and there must necessarily be a cycle of change, in
which one thing gives way to another, and some things are destroyed and others come into
being, and some things remain where they were and others are moved."
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Epictetus 1st century AD Stoic philosopher
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