Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 21: Worse End of the World Than Thou — Part the Second
Posted By Randy on October 21, 2020
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Rider on the Black Horse, George Frederick Watts (c 1878)
When last we met it was to look at a world in panic at a steadily building sense of dreadful certainty that all would be snuffed out by something that had been noticed to occur at 75 year intervals and that at no point in recorded history had done anything but come and go with not so much as a, “By your leave!”
Certainly its appearance, and that of other celestial phenomena, had been misidentified as being of supernatural origins in times past, and omens for good or ill, but unless you or someone you knew fell down a well and drowned while gawking at such things, nobody had been killed or injured by their occurrence.
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is a look at an existential crisis of global implication, the impact of which had no basis in how much anyone believed in it. One that had no discernible cause for most, yet plunged much of the world into great darkness, and winter in some places lasting years. A production of Timeline — World History Documentaries, our feature is Why Was 536 A.D The Worst Year In History?
So here is 49 and a half minutes worth spending. After all, it’s either dark or getting there, and these are troubled times so — what? You have somewhere else to be?
Where to even begin with this. The enormity of Krakatoa and the resultant implications are mid-boggling. The manner that it is presented is very functional and realistic in that it includes everything from the plague to the advent of the Magyars to the eventuality of the British Empire to Mexico, etal. Even the possibility of having a direct relation to the start up of Islam.
I had a good eye opening experience with this one. Especially the outbreak of plague strongly related to the change in climate though it speaks of a drop in temperature as the cause for the spread rather than the generally thought of rise in temperature being the cause. Much to ponder here, much to ponder..