Abstract

Dark Times of Language Dark Times of Language, Part 20 of The Miscommunication Trilogy: “The Entropy of Communication, Vol. II”, is a philosophical and historical exploration of civilizational decline through the lens of language, symbolism, and communication. Moving across subjects such as the Late Bronze Age collapse, the Greek Dark Ages, medieval crises, apocalyptic movements, technological dystopias, industrial society, artificial intelligence, mass media, and the psychological effects of modern communication systems, the book argues that civilizations often begin collapsing symbolically long before they collapse politically or economically. At the center of the book stands the concept of the planned obsolescence of language: the idea that modern technological civilization increasingly produces forms of communication designed for speed, stimulation, emotional reaction, and rapid replacement rather than for truth, continuity, reflection, or cultural memory. In a world dominated by digital acceleration, propaganda systems, algorithmic media, ideological branding, and informational overload, language itself becomes fragmented, disposable, and detached from stable meaning. Communication expands endlessly while understanding steadily deteriorates. Drawing connections between ancient societal collapses and the crises of the twenty-first century, Dark Times of Language examines how periods of historical instability are often accompanied by symbolic exhaustion, cultural fragmentation, and the erosion of shared reality. From religious eschatologies and apocalyptic cults to technological fears surrounding artificial intelligence, industrial society, surveillance, and behavioral engineering, the book explores humanity’s recurring attempts to interpret civilizational anxiety through narratives of collapse and transformation. The volume also investigates the psychological consequences of modern communication environments. Constant exposure to fragmented media signals, emotional outrage, ideological conflict, and symbolic overstimulation reshapes human consciousness itself, weakening attention, memory, reflection, and coherent identity. Under these conditions, public discourse increasingly transforms into spectacle, performance, and manipulation, while genuine communication becomes more difficult to sustain. Blending philosophy, media theory, historical analysis, cultural criticism, sociology, political thought, and technological critique, Dark Times of Language presents a sweeping interpretation of the modern world as a civilization entering a new kind of dark age: not an age of silence or illiteracy, but an age overwhelmed by information yet deprived of meaning. The book ultimately argues that the entropy of communication has become one of the defining crises of modern civilization, raising urgent questions about the future of language, memory, freedom, and human identity in an increasingly technological world.