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''Dark Age Ahead'' is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsive to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.〔 She argues that this decay threatens to create a dark age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a dark age as a "mass amnesia" where even the memory of what was lost is lost.〔 (Canada edition ISBN 0-679-31309-5).〕 ==Jacobs' arguments== The following is a summary of Jacobs' description of the decay in each area. ;Community and Family:People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare, that is: consumption over fertility; debt over family budget discipline; fiscal advantage to oneself at the expense of community welfare. ;Higher Education:Universities are more interested in credentials than providing high quality education. ;Bad Science:Elevation of economics as the main "science" to consider in making major political decisions. ;Bad Government:Governments are more interested in deep-pocket interest groups than the welfare of the population. ;Bad Culture:A culture that prevents people from understanding/realising the deterioration of fundamental physical resources which the entire community depends on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dark Age Ahead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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