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You think 2018 is the worst year ever? Try the real dark age: 536
It may seem amid the maelstom that is 2018 that it’s a pretty bad time to be alive. There’s the terrible and accelerating effect of climate change, the rise of fascist and “alt-right” politics, violent conflict, millions of stateless refugees, a looming Brexit crisis and political turmoil in many other directions. But there have been many other awful moments in history – the Black Death; the first world war; famines in China, Russia, India and across the world; the year of the Spanish influenza epidemic; the period after the Nazi party came to power; the blitz.
While these may all be contenders for the worst year in history, there is one outright winner: 536. Studies have now confirmed it. And, let me tell you, as a denizen of that dark age – the researchers are correct. It was the worst of times. Here in Britain in 536, as we suddenly learned, things could always get worse. You could lose the sun.
One minute we sixth-century folk had normal weather – then suddenly the sun stopped shining. It could be seen in the sky but the world received very little heat or warmth, as if our primary source of energy had been replaced by the moon. Britain – always cold – was now completely freezing. Some said it was a terrible cloud of ash, others an act of God because the people had been wicked. At first the problem was that we were always cold and then we didn’t have enough light to see by, but before long the crops failed and we began to starve.
Over in the 21st century, scientists can be fairly sure that massive volcanic eruptions in late 535 and early 536 – possibly in Iceland – sent plumes of ash into the atmosphere, blanketing the sun and leading to a sudden drop in temperature. It has been suggested that another massive eruption in 540 not only lengthened the disaster, but also contributed to the decline of the Mayan civilisation.
Devastating as the eruptions and subsequent blanketing of the world were, they weren’t the only problem facing us in 536. The Roman empire had crumbled and war had been raging across Europe. The Angles invaded Britain and said we had to obey them – and so we exchanged one set of masters for another. Tribes fought around Britain and old hatreds resurfaced. The possibility of war has always been heightened by a lack of resources – and, for the first time in centuries, the shortages were spread across the known world.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, fairly soon the bubonic plague began to spread across the eastern Roman empire. Those few who remained of the native population of Britain were battle-weary, fighting over government, constantly diseased and starving. Life was terrible. And there still wasn’t any sun.
We thought the world was ending. After all, what else could it be? Nobody could truly understand the cause of this sudden crisis. All the average Briton wanted was to get rid of the Roman occupation – and then when we lost them, we got more war. The years after 536 continued to be grim in Britain – the weather got colder due to more eruptions, we continued to struggle to find food, we got diseases, we fought again. There were more invasions.
To quote Hobbes, plenty of our history has been nasty, brutish and short. But 536 stands out as a year that was devastating in itself, but that also had repercussions that affected people worldwide for years afterwards. The worst thing was that this climate change wasn’t made by humans. It was a freak natural event that threw ash across the sky. In 2018, humans know they have a direct role in creating global warming. But at that time we couldn’t blame ourselves – the volcanoes and the subsequent events weren’t our fault, and we couldn’t have done anything to stop them. Although we did think the gods were cursing us.
If in 2018, if you’re feeling things are pretty hard, I have a somewhat hopeful message: they can get better – it just may take 200 years or so. By 640 life was improving and through to 700 the world was looking quite rosy – although the bubonic plague did keep coming back.
It took almost two centuries for European civilisation to truly recover from the damage of the catastrophic eruptions in 536. There was an increase in industrial processes around the year 640, with ice cores and dendrology results suggesting that silver smelting, among other processes, increased – implying a growing need for coinage as well as general silver and marking a rise in prosperity. It took a while for the population of Britain and Europe to recover from the effects of starvation, plague and war – but it did recover. Perhaps there is some small comfort in that.
In late 2018, you’re unlikely to wake up one day and find that the sun is gone – yet the world around you can seem extremely fragile and under threat. But never forget: 536 truly was the worst in history.
23 Comments on "You think 2018 is the worst year ever? Try the real dark age: 536"
onlooker on Sun, 25th Nov 2018 8:49 pm
Just to show you, no matter how bad you think you have it, it can always be worse. Or find the silver linings in the clouds
Darrell Cloud on Sun, 25th Nov 2018 9:06 pm
Two years without a summer ended civilization. When the bread and water cannot be delivered, the center will not hold. Learn from the past and plan accordingly.
Sissyfuss on Sun, 25th Nov 2018 9:14 pm
In 536 you would be lucky to see 30.
ANAL LOVER69 on Sun, 25th Nov 2018 9:38 pm
Fucking niggers and their nigger bullshit
Davy on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 4:31 am
It’s a big world even back then. The world population was estimated to be between 150MIL-330MIL. Europe had an estimated 17MIL – 27MIL. China and India both had populations estimated at around 25MIL each. So this article said it was the worst year ever for 27MIL in Europe? Elsewhere people flourished. We have this bad way of looking at everything from a eurotard point of view.
“ALL THE WORLD’S HISTORY, AT YOUR FINGERTIPS”
https://www.timemaps.com/
“What is happening in North America in 500CE This has been a period of stability for Mexico, where the great city of Teotihuacan has continued to flourish. Further south, the Mayan city-states are reaching a peak of prosperity. Their civilization is becoming one of the most remarkable civilizations in world history, boasting extraordinary technological and artistic achievements. By this date, the Hopewell culture has vanished. The large, stable communities that were capable of building the large earthworks of the Hopewell have dispersed, perhaps due to over-exploitation of their local food sources. Smaller farming cultures will continue to flourish in the eastern woodlands of the present-day USA.”
“What is happening in South America in 500CE The past centuries have seen both the Moche and Nazca civilizations are reaching their peak. Elsewhere in the continent, the Arawak-speaking diaspora has now more or less reached its limits. In Amazonia, large, densely populated regional chiefdoms are now established on the floodplains of the great rivers of the region. At the Amazon’s vast mouth, on the island of Marajo, a flourishing culture has emerged, which will last until the final period of Pre-Columbian America. This culture is known for its beautiful multicoloured ceramics, and for the large platform mounds it constructs.”
“East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 500 BCE The philosopher Confucius, whose teachings will influence millions of people down to the present day, lives at this time.”
WhentheEagleFlies on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 1:48 pm
Um, “the rise of fascist and alt-right politics”? Obviously written by someone who’s been spoon-fed by the mainstram media and has never opened up a history book him/herself.
JuanP on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 1:51 pm
2018 is not a bad year. Bad times are coming, but they are not quite here yet. Make that last trip, buy that boat, fuck that bitch, do it while you still can. Life is short and every second precious.
xRadar86 on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 2:52 pm
This is an assinine article when it states this “It may seem amid the maelstom that is 2018 that it’s a pretty bad time to be alive.”
2018 is an awesome time to be alive please tell me what time is better than now? The racist 1050’s, WW2 or WW1 how about the US Civil war?
How about the cold war and the threat of nuclear war?
In 2018 we have access to the best known healthcare, technology, energy, food, clothing, communication technology, the internet, unlimited entertainment plus most 3rd world countries have dramatically reduced their poverty rates in the last 30 years. You no longer hear about worldwide famines like we did in the 1970’s.
2018 is a great time to be alive you fool.
makati1 on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 6:14 pm
2018 was not a bad year, and yes, I agree that 2019 and on will be worse, JuanP. xRadar86 has no idea just how bad/different this year is to the good years prior to 1965. Had you described 2018 to someone in 1965, he/she would have said you were crazy and called you a liar. I was 21 that year and I can tell you that it was much, much better. The American Dream was still alive and thriving.
Dante has 9 levels of hell in his Inferno. The Us is slipping down that slope to the worse levels. If 1978 was level 1, the US is now passing thru level 4 or 5 by my estimation with level 9 being total destruction.
I have been reading some of Heinlein’s old novels (50s) about the US becoming a police state and one where a religion produces a dictatorship. That one is not possible because there are not enough really religious people left in the US unless you count the religion of money and greed, but I guess money will produce one just as easily. We shall see.
Davy on Mon, 26th Nov 2018 6:27 pm
“Dante has 9 levels of hell in his Inferno. The Us is slipping down that slope to the worse levels. If 1978 was level 1, the US is now passing thru level 4 or 5 by my estimation with level 9 being total destruction.”
Billy, please spare the drama you are sounding really stupid.
Theedrich on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 12:41 am
Opioids are now the religion of the irreligious. Today Chink fentanyl crimelords are mailing fentanyl to Canada and Mexico, and thence into the U.S. The new Dark Age will not be brought about by volcanic eruptions, but by the refusal of Yid-Cretin Whites to survive. It’s against American “values” to do so. Employing tactics such as those attempted by the Chinese against the Brits in the 19th-century opium wars (won by the slimey Limeys), or by the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte today, would be unAmerican. Better to die.
Let’s face it: democracy, however nice a pipe dream, cannot go the distance. It has no serious defenses against poisons that the pampered demos votes for with its secret purchases and its open electoral choices of Robin-Hood “leaders.” The mindless plebs can be easily manipulated by media with their canned emotional drivel as directed by the oligarchs behind the curtains.
The fact that there is no free lunch is beyond the event horizon of the sub-100-IQ, unschooled, increasingly darkening masses. Collapse à la Soviet Union or Venezuela, and the despotism resulting from the failure of imposed fantasies, give the proles exactly what they really vote for: the worst of all possible worlds. Only, with a planet vastly overloaded by semi-human muds, the results of such folly will far exceed 536 in agony.
makati1 on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 1:46 am
Theedrich, you paint a nasty picture but it is reality from my observation point. America’s “War on Drugs” was/is nothing more than another way to drain the pleb’s blood by their vampire masters. With US drug deaths soaring, along with drug profits, it appears to be working.
A serious war on drugs, like that of Duterte, would have most of the CDC and the corporate drug pusher’s heads rolling on the National Mall along with those of the bought-off Congress. It is a $70+ billion per year gold mine for the American elite. Not to mention one of the best ways to level the field for the OWG the elite have been planning for a very long time.
Cloggie on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 1:55 am
Nice reading material for the likes of davy and siss…
but by the refusal of Yid-Cretin Whites to survive. It’s against American “values” to do so.
White survival is unethical, it would be raaaaaysist…
US White nationalist Greg Johnson is right, America is hopeless and will fall apart, too many lame davy’s, too many lame sissies.
https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/11/freedom-of-speech-2/
His only hope is Europe and especially Eastern Europe and Italy. Empire dave will watch stock charts for us to prove that Italy is going down the drain, which is what he hopes, money is the only value he knows. And empire. And meanwhile preparing to flee exactly to Italy, because he could not sustain his own society, he deep inside knows is going to fail. Or like siss, juggle with gay concepts like ‘Gaia’ to prove that their failure to resist their own demise is justified by unstoppable events and general stupidity.
Mak is right, the sooner the joint implodes, the better it is, even for white America, that will need to start all over again in a much smaller country.
The core of the yid media poison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy1ByJDGm-g
Every sentence uttered by these two co-tribalists is intentionally directed at destroying the white family and hence white America.
Davy on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 5:21 am
You three are inbred whites. Two of you have higher IQ. Billy thinks he does. Billy’s narrow intelligence is centered on surfing the internet for bad news on the US then saying slip slidin, beat goes on, and put the rabid dog down. LOL. The two of you that are smart are only smart on a narrow range of thinking and this is mostly self-centered racist type. You are delusional about the truth so you get many demerits knocking you into the dumb but smart category of poor education and bad behavior. Showing smarts naturally is one thing but thinking you are smarter than you are and saying things that are fantasy based and delusional well that is smarts gone bad. You are like a pure bred animal that displays too many bad genes. You guys represent a population of whites who are delusional about themselves. It takes a community to survive. In a nation diversity offers similar characteristics. Races and cultures offer different specializations. All races and cultures have strong characteristics of people that are good to their family and community. That is the real judge of a human. The three of you are lonely old men without significant others parading on the internet daily pointing fingers at how bad humans are. Look in the mirror.
I am against mass immigration. I am all for populations with unique races and cultures protecting themselves. I am against the homogenization of humanity called for by the globalist liberal scum. They are mongrels pushing moralization of whites and colored alike. Yea, they don’t respect people of color either but say they do. I am not against all of it just the force fed kind. It is just another way of life but don’t force that on people who don’t want any more of it. Places in Europe should maintain their race and cultural integrity for example. If not they will lose something special. Fences make good neighbors. I am happy with what Trump is doing at the border. The US is big enough that cultures and races can coagulate without too much tension. They can mix also and that can be a good thing. Not always but some of it turns out to be a good result. We have a tradition of this mixing making the US a different animal than Europe but there are limits and we are there now IMO with mass immigration. Most of all mass immigration must stop because carrying capacity has been breached. It is not wise to add more people in such circumstances.
You old guys spew your racist rants like dogs with barking issues. These rants are lame and only show how weak whites can be. IQ is not everything especially Euro judged IQ. Euro thought has killed the planet and brought us to the brink of extinction. So much for euro IQ. The nedernazi is talking this reality up by being in denial of the truth of the matter. We need something new some of this is Euro based. There are some great ideas about survival in the west and the rest of the world. This is the real cultural mixing we need. Wisdom from across a spectrum of peoples. We should be coming together now as a global people with fences and respect. You three old white guys represent disrespect for humanity. You are rabid dogs and like billy says, should be put down. No, not killed just muzzled. Not by censorship but by reality and the truth.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 6:03 am
‘Put Putin in his place’, Ukrainian ambassador tells Germany
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-diplomacy/put-putin-in-his-place-ukrainian-ambassador-tells-germany-idUSKCN1NX0RZ
Trump already said he was going to cancel his meeting with Putin..The split has started!
Next comes a false flag and a nuclear first strike!
Davy on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 6:16 am
“Trump already said he was going to cancel his meeting with Putin..The split has started!”
Got references?
“Escobar: Kerch Strait Chaos Looks “More Like A Cheap Ploy By Desperate Neocons”
https://tinyurl.com/yayzy4wp
“The West is complaining about Russian ‘aggression’ but the incident looks more like a cheap ploy by a desperate Ukrainian president and US conservatives keen to undermine Trump’s next pow-wow with Putin…”
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 28th Nov 2018 6:19 am
A very hungry Putin
https://i.redd.it/7t4qvcqx51121.jpg
Cloggie on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 7:15 am
I am against mass immigration. I am all for populations with unique races and cultures protecting themselves. I am against the homogenization of humanity called for by the globalist liberal scum. They are mongrels pushing moralization of whites and colored alike. Yea, they don’t respect people of color either but say they do. I am not against all of it just the force fed kind. It is just another way of life but don’t force that on people who don’t want any more of it. Places in Europe should maintain their race and cultural integrity for example. If not they will lose something special. Fences make good neighbors. I am happy with what Trump is doing at the border.
I say exactly the same thing, but when I say it, it is “racist” and when davy says it, it is full of “wisdom” and “spirituality”.
The truth is that davy loves to see himself as a morally superior being, which should be proven by launching the empire smear word “racist” or “nazi” every now and then. He just can’t let go.
But in them meantime he has his one-way ticket to Italy under in the drawer, just in case the whole joint comes crashing down on his head.
Cloggie on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 7:20 am
“I AM THE FLOP” sez: Next comes a false flag and a nuclear first strike!
If you want to understand what happened in thirties to Germany, just study how Russia is treated today. No difference whatsoever.
First years of demonizing by “neocons” and their media in order to prepare the ground for war:
https://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html
The yuge difference between 1939 and 2018 is that Russia has MUCH better cards than Germany had. They have nukes and giant China as an ally rather than wobbly midsize and unreliable Italy. On top of that America is divided to the core.
As Marx said: first time a tragedy, second time a farce.
Davy on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 7:46 am
Yes I said this and I support the message:
“I am against mass immigration. I am all for populations with unique races and cultures protecting themselves. I am against the homogenization of humanity called for by the globalist liberal scum. They are mongrels pushing moralization of whites and colored alike. Yea, they don’t respect people of color either but say they do. I am not against all of it just the force fed kind. It is just another way of life but don’t force that on people who don’t want any more of it. Places in Europe should maintain their race and cultural integrity for example. If not they will lose something special. Fences make good neighbors. I am happy with what Trump is doing at the border.”
“I say exactly the same thing, but when I say it, it is “racist” and when davy says it, it is full of “wisdom” and “spirituality”.”
LOL, now you are buying into my respectful version instead of you white are better because of IQ and a superior culture. All colored people are inferior because of culture and IQ is your message. Your Europeans are a beacon of civilization is your thinking and the fact they destroyed so many cultures and now their ideas are destroying the planet well that is OK. Why, because of high IQ and culture so it goes.
“The truth is that davy loves to see himself as a morally superior being, which should be proven by launching the empire smear word “racist” or “nazi” every now and then. He just can’t let go.”
Sorry, I don’t think I am better than anyone. I am blessed to have what I have and have experienced life as I have. I feel an obligation to return to my fellow man what I learned. I want to give back wisdom not talk myself up like you and senile billy. I am about others you are about you.
“But in them meantime he has his one-way ticket to Italy under in the drawer, just in case the whole joint comes crashing down on his head.”
I am married to an Italian women with property in Italy. Neder would not know about a significant other because the lonely bastard does not even have a dog. I have the option to go to Italy. Part of being in a marriage is balance. She is here now because this is a good place for us. She loves it here but she also loves her home. I am well aware of problems in Europe. My Spanish daughter is here because the prospects for work are so bad in Spain. Europe is not the nirvana you want to proselytize about. I may go to Italy and I may not. That will depend on what is best for my family not your extremist ideas of what I may not may not do.
Davy on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 7:51 am
No wonder neder is here on an unmoderated American site so much:
“In Europe “Criticism Of Migration” Set To Become A Criminal Offense”
https://tinyurl.com/y9qa42qe
“Europeans concerned about borders, language and culture may soon find themselves in the hot seat after Dutch politician and European Parliament member Marcel de Graaff issued a dire warning over the “definition of hate speech” which will criminalize speech opposing mass migration, as first reported by Joe Schaeffer of LibertyNation. In a press conference, de Graaff raised the alarm over an international conference in Marrakech, Morocco on Dec. 11 and 12 where the U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is to be signed. Though the pact is said to be non-binding, it is meant to establish the groundwork for an Orwellian campaign to cement mass migration as a human right legally above any and all criticism. “One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech,” de Graaff says. “The agreement wants to criminalize migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offense. Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.” –LibertyNation”
Cloggie on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 8:20 am
“In Europe “Criticism Of Migration” Set To Become A Criminal Offense”
That is because of proposed legislation coming from the UN, read US empire (before the God Emperor that is). Several countries in Europe have rejected that migration pact, including Hungary, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria, Slovenia. Germany is still wrestling and so is Italy. Australia, the US, Israel also have refused to sign the shit pact.
So forget about this shoddy peace of work, entirely against the Zeitgeist, becoming EU legislation. And nobody can enforce online speech, criticizing laws.
More sensationalism from Zerohedge.
Davy on Sat, 1st Dec 2018 9:53 am
“Mass Arrests In Paris As “Yellow Vest” Protests Enter Violent Third Week, Spread To Belgium”
https://tinyurl.com/yd36jgs6
Not far from neder’s home:
https://tinyurl.com/ydcrxfm2