Ernest Thayer (1863–1940) American poet
Spoken at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895, as quoted in "American Heritage," (December 1968).
“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
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Mahmud Tarzi (1865–1933) Afghan writer
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Context: The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand.
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”
China Miéville book The Dusty Hat
The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Deadeye Dick
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Deadeye Dick (1982)
