When was the Golden Age?

[mix]

I forgot, could someone remind me?

[marybourg]

1. If you mean the "gilded age": from the end of the Civil War to the

depression of 1893.
edited to correct misspelling

[mix]

2. No, I meant the Golden Age.

[Codeine]

3. The late 40's up til the early 50's.

Then the new generation of superheroes comes along as result of the Comics Code and you get the Silver Age.

[eShirl]

4. the Golden Age of what?

[mix]

5. you tell me nt

[eShirl]

35. THE Golden Age?

Everything after beermaking was discovered.

[mix]

39. i'm convinced

:toast:

[H2O Man]

6. It depends.

[mix]

8. 1491 was a very good year. nt

[RagAss]

7. Between 0 and 30 seconds.....Post Big Bang.

[mix]

9. what were we like pre-big bang nt

[RagAss]

11. All one.

[mix]

13. i think i would have liked that nt

[Swede]

10. Glenn Beck claims it's right now.

So act fast,operators are standing by.

[mix]

12. lol, hucksters are american as apple pie nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

14. Before the silver, iron and bronze ones...

First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus made a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods -- without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them; but with legs and arms never failing they made merry with feasting beyond the reach of all evils.

When they died, it was as though they were overcome with sleep, and they had all good things; for the fruitful earth unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things, rich in flocks and loved by the blessed gods.

Hesiod, Works and Days, 109 ff. Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, ex Loeb Classical Library, 1914

[mix]

15. beautiful, thanks nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. It's a dream we always..

...have had, because it never was.

[mix]

18. abundance, peace and the favor of the gods nt

[valerief]

17. The Golden Girls started in the 80s but they're still running in syndication.

Golden Age of Teevee was in the fifties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television

[Vickers]

19. The summer of 1980.

Personal reasons.

:P

[mix]

20. a private history, the best kind nt

[discocrisco01]

28. Now is the Golden Age.

For me, it is now. But I have a federal job and two years sober in the program. Prior to that, I was drinking heavily for two years when a significant amount of friends moved away.

[mix]

31. glad things are going well for you

:hug:

[Hardrada]

21. 9/1/56 to 11/22/63

Personal Golden Age

[mix]

22. I admire such temporal precision.

Glad you lived it well and I hope another arrives.

[dimbear]

23. Just before history started. n/m

[Fumesucker]

24. Now.. Now is the Golden Age..

Scary thought, innit?

[mix]

25. That was the claim at least in the 90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union

and all the triumphalist talk of the end of history. Our government and military still hold this view despite evidence to the contrary.

[Fumesucker]

33. Well, the Peace Dividend evaporated like a rain shower in Las Vegas in August..

That should have told us something..

[deaniac21]

26. For me it was 43.

[Morning Dew]

27. Ask Mott The Hoople.

[mix]

29. I did, they were pretty vague.

Something about buzz and fuzz and stoke coke on the fire. They said "Whoaa" several times too.

[Hannah Bell]

30. so far as wages go, ww2 to 1980.

[mix]

32. 1980 has a special place of disgust and anger in my heart.

We're still trapped in that web of inequality and injustice sadly.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. The earliest I've heard of was Rome under Augustus, about 2000 years ago

http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/augustus-index.html

There's probably an earlier one somewhere else, though.

[eShirl]

37. between the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the death of the emperor Augustus, precisely

one mustn't leave out Cicero amongst the authors of the Golden Age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin#Authors_of_the_Golden_Age

[mix]

40. I'll go with Periclean Athens, as flawed as it was, over Rome. nt

. . . The freedom we enjoy extends also to ordinary life; we are not suspicious of one another, and we do not nag our neighbor if he chooses to go his own way. . . . But this freedom does not make us lawless. We are taught to respect the magistrates and the laws, and never to forget that we must protect the injured. And we are also taught to observe those unwritten laws whose sanction lies only in the universal feeling of what is right . . .
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/Polis/GREECE.html

[Posteritatis]

36. Golden ages are idealized after the fact and generally didn't exist. (nt)

[mix]

38. tell that to this guy

[Kaleva]

41. It's in the future.

I'm in my early 50s but I feel my best years are ahead of me. My body is falling apart but my spirit improves with each passing year. My teens, 20s, 30s and most of my 40s were decades I don't dwell on much.