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 People fear a return to the 'dark ages', but in the dark ages, they had sconces and shit, couldn't have been that dark, chill  the fuck out. 

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 Lmao 
 The “dark ages” were dark because supposedly Roman, Greek and Egyptian culture was forgotten/ lost. This has been called into question by many including Isaac Newton, Anatoly Fomenko and Gary Kasparov .