# Quote — Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

> The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?

- Author: [Jane Jacobs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs.md)
- Book: [Dark Age Ahead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs#Dark_Age_Ahead_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/the-salient-mystery

## More from this book

> Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/privately-run-jails.md)

> I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/i-have-learned.md)

> Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/virtually-all-ideologues.md)