We live in a time of incredible technological advancement, scientific discovery, and social progress. Some believe we are in a golden age of unprecedented prosperity and opportunity. Others argue that the world still faces too many challenges to be considered a golden age. A user asked on a forum, “What are we currently in the golden age of?”
Here are a few responses he got!
INFORMATION
“I agree with everyone who says information. I remember growing up as a kid who loved reading, and how it could take weeks to get a book if it was popular, and say your grandma wouldn’t buy it for you because you already had too many books, and she was mad as you over-piled another shelf and broke it.”
PODCASTS
“I have an amazing 7-speaker sound system in my car, and I spend most of my time listening to people talking.”
PALEONTOLOGY
“We’ve discovered more species and fossils that explain prehistoric animal behavior than at any other point in history, just in the past 20 years. We know what at least one species of dinosaur buttholes looked like. What a time to be alive.”
BEER
“I can go out every night of the week, all year, and never try the same beer twice. And they’re all pretty delicious. Also, now I may be an alcoholic.”
ASPARAGUS
“Asparagus, This is the Dawning of the age of Asparagus!”
SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICHES
“Spicy chicken sandwiches and nothing else.”
“Seems like every other week there’s a new “So, and so’s Famous Spicy Chicken” shop popping up.”
YOGA PANTS
“Nice, but I miss the low-rise hip-huggers of the early 2000s. Little flashes of butt crack all the time, loved it.”
HORSEPOWER
“If you had told me just 15 years ago that it would be common to have 450+HP stock and still get 25+MPG with all the creature comforts and for a reasonable price, there’s no way anyone would have believed it. Yet here we are with the Mustang GT, Camaro SS, Challenger R/T, and even the Corvette!”
ENTERTAINMENT
“You could kill a day with just YouTube channel subscription videos. Or Game Pass games. Or PS+ games. Or any of the streaming services. And so on. (There are still books, TV, and cinema.)”
SOCIAL MEDIA
“I feel like many social media sites are getting to the point where they need to start turning a profit, and it’s getting harder to do that and not kill your platform. Combine that with how it’s becoming a more significant part of the public knowledge that it’s incredibly unhealthy, especially for children. I wouldn’t be surprised if social media isn’t dead in a generation, either because companies stop investing money in new social media startups or by the existing ones being regulated out of existence.”
MUSIC
“Music and access to music. Growing up, I had access to whatever the radio played and whatever Walmart carried- country, rap, or classic rock. Now, I can find anything on Spotify, and if I’m in the mood to find something new, I go to a channel and listen to stuff; if I don’t like it, I skip it and move on.”
CORPORATE GREED
“Everything keeps increasing in price: rent, gas, homes, food, water, power, and anything else you can think of. But I can only increase my income if I job-hop constantly. I hit the wall of that two years ago, and basically, I’m just getting priced out of existence.”
RETRO VIDEO GAMES
“I’d say retro video games as the original hardware is still affordable, mostly plentiful in working condition, and there have been just so many community developments and innovations on every front to overcome hardware limitations, like with memory cards or HDMI and RGB mods.”
MISINFORMATION
“We have people spreading stuff that is bound to hits/Money, and they don’t give a damn who they hurt.”
“We have at least a couple of networks devoted to only giving disinformation for ratings. And sadly, what people want most is lies, and propaganda gets them high, you know. Just try to take it away from them and watch how insane they get.”
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“And our personal information is being sold to the highest bidder.”
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