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a-god-in-ruins-rises · 9 months ago

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some people who try to "rehabilitate" the dark ages are doing too much. it's one thing to say it wasn't as bad as popularly imagined in the past.

but it's another thing to say it wasn't bad at all or that it wasn't obviously a downgrade from the ages that preceded or even that it was actually equal or even /better/ than the ages that preceded it (actually thing i've seen people say).

like look at this "medievalist":

he basically acknowledges that there was a decline by several metrics -- even says this isn't disputed -- but then he still insists we stop using the term "dark age" because of "emotional baggage". lmao.

has the same energy as this:

#i think most of these people are just “medievalists” who are insecure #or they are just offended that their favorite time period has a negative association #i say: get over it #lmao #i am an amateur historian and i love the dark ages and i'm not going to stop using the term #if other people have misconceptions then boo hoo? that's not my problem #the people who matter will eventually do their own research and find out about the misconceptions #i just really hate this trend toward appealing to the lowest common denominator -- to the masses #gotta make sure everything is neutral and “unbiased” and unoffensive #BORING #why you gotta make everything sterile #i can tell you: because they want to replace it with something else #renaming/redefining things is basically the equivalent of #a conqueror destroying the temples and monuments of a people he conquered #to clear the way for him to impose his own values/ideology #it's never innocent though they try to dress it up as such #i also wonder about these people's conception of history #do they just think history is linear/progressive?#where things are just always the same or better and never getting worse?#if not then what is the harm in acknowledging that sometimes things get worse?

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