Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "Elon Musk sets WORLD RECORD....." video.

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  5.  @stripedcollar335  a 'dark age' is litterally just a period for which we don't have much in the way of written records. We probably Are in a Cultural dark age due to the complete insanity that is modern copyright law in most of the world, but we're nowhere near the circumstances that lead to the dark ages in Europe. In the north east, it was mostly that no one was really keeping records of most things yet anyway, in the west, the collapse of the roman empire lead to economic decline that meant that there simply weren't the spare resources to dedicate to specialists whose entire job was to keep records of stuff that didn't really matter all that much in the shorter term, as more people had to be farming etc. locally to make up for the collapse of the trade routes, and big cities couldn't fit enough farm land close enough to the city to do that, so a lot of the biggest cities shrank as people moved to... smaller cities and larger towns where that wasn't a problem. Society as a whole didn't really Collapse, technological regression was limited and inconsistent, technological Development continued, etc. The biggest problem was probably that no one entity had the resources for most large scale engineering projects anymore. Fortunately the Romans built major infrastructure stupidly well (and even if they couldn't build on that scale, maintainence was still possible for more local entities) to the point where it was still highly significant in many places up until the world wars. Mind you, the modern world would, in some respects, be a Lot harder hit by such a collapse of trade routes (heck, just look at the effect of recent disruptions), but we're still not talking complete chaos and collapse.
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