Reddit mentions of Dark Age Ahead

I hear ya... I have been doing a bit of digging lately so its hard to avoid. I like to be conscious of the distinction that I am reading information about things (news opinion etc), which is often political, divisive, and perceived as negative. I try to take the info strictly as what is possible, while trying not to invest emotionally.

I know he has probably seen some wicked shit. and that's gotta get out somehow. He just needs to make peace after.

I don't read books that much, but the only other book I have that might be of any interest at all to this sub is Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs 230 pgs Apr 21 2005

Chapter list

• The Hazard (basically cultural amnesia)
  
• Families Rigged to Fail
  
• Credentialing Versus Educating
  
• Science Abandoned
  
• Dumbed-Down Taxes
  
• Self-Policing Subverted
  
• Unwinding Viscious Spirals
  
• Dark Age Patterns
  
  Here is the chapter list on empire of illusion
  
  
• Illusion of Literacy
  
• Illusion of Love
  
• Illusion of Wisdom
  
• Illusion of Happiness
  
• Illusion of America
  
  and a quick random quote from open page why not?
  > In the Middle Ages, writes Alain de Botton in his book Status Anxiety, stained glass windows and vivid paintings of religious torment and salvation controlled and influenced social behavior. Today we are ruled by icons of gross riches and physical beauty that blare and flash from television, cinema, and computer screens. People knelt before God and the church in the Middle Ages. We flock hungrily to the glamorous crumbs that fall to us from glossy magazines, talk and entertainment shows, and reality television. We fashion our lives as closely to these lives of gratuitous consumption as we can. Only a life with status, physical attributes, and affluence is worth pursuing.
  
  And here is a cool TED talk that I feel is related to all this: James Howard Kunstler: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs