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  • What “Age” are we living in? What will it be called historically?
  • Malvern Rider
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    olddog
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    It’s the dawning of the Age of Aquarius obvs

    tomd
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    A lot of people here are using their own negative experiences or perceptions to define an age. An interesting point is that if you take something like the Renaissance or Enlightenment, the experience of the average man on the street was not one of improvement.

    For centuries, you’ve lived in a small close knit community and gone to church every week. Now some bawbag is saying God is a crock of shit, the church is a sham and your entire system of government and society is an unjust aberration. Wars, collapse, upheaval and you’re not seeing a lot of benefit from Newton’s laws yet. Yet we look back on it as golden age of discovery and advancement.

    When people look back on our age our experience of it will not matter a lot in terms of the key events that define it.

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    Blackflag
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    Consumerist Age

    epicyclo
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    Gammonocene

    tinribz
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    The never had it so good but feel a bit guilty and like to moan about it age. Or so it seems.

    Longest period of peace in European history. Highest standards of living. Lowest crime, greatest personal freedoms and social mobility ever.
    Unimagined information and entertaimemnt access. Steady population decline.

    Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.

    lightfighter762
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    The age of mincing

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