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Dark Age AheadDark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing the decay of five key pillars in the US and Canada; this decay threatens to create a dark age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a dark age as a "mass amnesia" 1 where even the memory of what was lost is lost. The pillars under threat are 2:
Community and Family - People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare. Ie. Consumption over fertility. Debt over family budget discipline. Fiscal advantage to oneself at the expense of community welfare.
Higher Education - University are more interested in credentials than providing high quality education.
Bad Science - Elevation of economics as main "science" to consider in making major political decisions.
Bad Government - Government are more interested in deep pocket interest groups than the welfare of the population.
Bad Culture - A culture that prevents people from understanding/realising the deterioration of fundamental physical resources which the entire community depends on.
Footnotes 1 Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs, p. 4 (ISBN 0-679-31309-5) (Random House Canada) 2 ibid., p. 24 Dark Age Ahead, The Dark Age Ahead, The
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