Higgenbotham wrote:If this civilization were to collapse like Rome, I think it's near impossible to sort through all the causes. Just looking at the brain rot, we can list the education system, distractions, individual failure, environmental contamination, drug and alcohol addiction, poverty, and parental failures like fetal alcohol syndrome which damage the unborn before they ever have a chance. One of my neighbors had 2 foster kids (twins) and she told me the boys were born to a mother who had crack cocaine in her bloodstream when she gave birth. The boys were about 13, mentally disabled, and when they came home from school I would guesstimate they slammed the door as many as 100 times in an hour.
Higgie -
Maybe this is the "unacceptable" answer to your question or observation regard the coming "dark age"
background ----
Genghis Khan 1155-1257 created what was to become the largest land empire in world history.
It opened up trade, merged knowledge between cultures, was religiously tolerant and he dreamed of a global unified civilization .[ "Genghis Khan, and the making of the modern world" by Jack Weatherford ]. This empire allowed Marco Polo 1254-1324 to bring knowledge from Asia to backward Europe.
Other interesting information -- presented in the book "1421 - The Year China Discovered America" by Gavin Menzies. - [ from globally archived material ]
briefly --The Chinese Emperor Zhu Di
He wanted to make the new capital of China ,Beijing, the world's greatest city and the world's intellectual capital, it contained encyclopedias and libraries covering every known subject known to man ( date 1404 )
In the markets of Beijing, at that time, one could purchase printed books on various subjects. ( this idea -a global civilization - may have come from Genghis Khan )
The Emperor was religiously tolerant
China had extensive trade relations over a wide area of Asia the Pacific and into Africa.
The "great exploration armada" contained approximately 4,000 ships - from patrol ships, combat vessel, warships, freighters for grain transport, and the giant nine-masted treasure ships ( capital ships) measuring 180 feet across and 480 feet long. This armada was for the purpose of gathering resources, information, conducting studies, and to distribute plants, animals and collinests. They explored all of the contents, at least partially,-- including the Arctic and Antarctic seas.
However most of the ships were destroyed -- by, it is assumed, weather, treacherous seas, etc.
Then on May 9,1421, two months after the great armada set sail, a violent storm broke over the Forbidden City in Beijing. Lightening struck the newly constructed palace and it burned as though oil was provide for the conflagration. Balls of fire appeared to travel down the Imperial Way. In the end only ashes remained.
Afterword, the events were taken as a sign , China retreated into itself, and all written documentation of the armada , the knowledge, and events, were ordered destroyed. hence China's dark age.
Was the destruction purposeful?
If Emperor Zhu Di would have been successful, we could be living in an advanced global society today.
Which leads us to ------
Loyd Pye --from his --- intervention theory, the alien skull, etc.
"truth is hidden by the big universities and corporations, and truth is often ridiculed"
"They" wanted an unintelligent Human Race. "They" want Humans stupid, to keep Humans as inferior servants.
Humans by design, support a Dictator master. it is in Humans genes, the Sheeple
http://jordanmaxwellshow.com/blog/2013/04/07/lloyd-pye/
This is way too crazy !! -- However, take a good look around, and at history, and the constant destruction of knowledge, and the ridicule of "truth" --- and then say -- it can't be true!
gerald