A New Dark Age

Once, the great universities stood as beacons of knowledge, temples of free thought and intellectual discovery. But those days were long gone. Now, the ivy-covered walls hid something darker—a rot that had spread from within. No longer places of learning, they had become indoctrination centers, where young minds were bent and reshaped not by reason, but by rage. Professors no longer taught—they preached. History was rewritten, not to understand the past but to weaponize it. Patriotism was condemned, tradition mocked, and critical thinking replaced by blind obedience to the newest ideological dogma.

The students, once eager to build a future, now saw the past as a disease to be purged. They marched not with books in their hands, but with torches. They chanted not for truth, but for destruction. Buildings were burned to ash—science halls, libraries, archives of civilization’s memory—all erased in violent fits of moral hysteria. Anything that hinted at the old world, the “oppressive” structures of knowledge, order, and law, was deemed a threat.

Police dared not intervene. Politicians offered only hollow platitudes, afraid to confront the monster they themselves had fed. Professors watched with a mix of pride and fear as their students razed the very institutions that had birthed them. And in the smoke, a terrible clarity emerged: this was not protest. This was a purge. This was the unraveling of civilization.

As the fires spread, so too did chaos. Law and order began to wither, their foundations scorched. The streets outside the campuses, once vibrant with discourse and ambition, grew silent—then violent. The rule of law became a memory, and mobs ruled in its place.

This was the beginning. The first step in the descent into a new dark age. A time not of light, but of flickering flames, where knowledge was feared and truth was buried under the rubble of ideologies gone mad.