Modern Popular Use
Further information: MedievalismFilms and novels often use the term "Dark Age" with its implied meaning of a time of backwardness. The 2007 television show The Dark Ages from The History Channel called the Dark Ages "600 years of degenerate, godless, inhuman behavior".
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Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or popular:
“The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“Vodka is our enemy, so let’s finish it off.”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)