[danudey]

Our society is where we are now because of the dark ages, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't be better off if they hadn't happened.

[Someone1234]

Isn't the "dark ages" a misnomer anyway? For example didn't a large chunk of modern medicine evolve during that period in the middle east

[cben]

The term specifically refers to a "dark" period in Europe. E.g. Islamic science famously flourished at these same centuries. But it's increasingly seen as a misnomer wrt. Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)