"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> The only thing that was
> dark about the dark ages was that centralized statutory government tyranny was
> replaced by distributed, random, meaningless petty tyranny.
The phrase actually refers to the lack of historical objects from the period, most of the stuff was destroyed and so it appears "dark" to us.
Dwayne
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