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The Met Gala is a Sign We're in the Dark Ages - Artlust

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The Met Gala is a sign that we are now in the Dark Ages.

Lauren Sanchez and Madame X The Met Gala is a sign that we are now in the Dark Ages. I will say, the original Dark Ages didn’t exist in the way we use the phrase in spoken American English; that term was written long after the Middle Ages. Somebody said it was a dark age to us because so much of the knowledge they had no longer exists for us. It eventually got translated as “those people knew nothing as we do now.” That said, we’re experiencing the latter, widespread loss of knowledge. We have made knowledge very accessible, but also allowed the cheapening of ideas. Online, every idea is…

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