People of a moribund civilization running on empty?

Decline and Fall

By Orest Slepokura
Thursday, September 16, 2010

T.H. White pauses toward the end of The Once and Future King, his great epic about Arthurian England, to argue the Dark Ages were hardly as dark as they’re made out. Certainly, he agrees, the Dark Agers had big problems, like famine, serfdom, and the Black Death, but hadn’t we moderns also had to deal with world wars, the Spanish Flu, and the sudden collapse of empires?

In “these dark ages,â€