What was the greatest period in human history?

>>2459483
Whatever period we're in now.

>>2459483
the height of the age of Imperialism (1880-1913)

>>2459483
1950's America

>>2459483
Define "greatest"

When humans didn't exist

>>2459492
This. Too bad we're living on borrowed time, with over-consumption and overpopulation.

>>2459483
For white people? Lots of choices, basically any period of peace where the aristocracy and government are stable.

For minorities? Literally today.

>>2459508
>overpopulation
Myth.

>>2459513
>available resources are limited and finite
>resource and energy consumption in the West is unsustainable
We either solve overpopulation or everybody is gonna live like Chinese peasants.

>>2459542
>available resources are limited and finite

Yes and one day the sun will burn out as it too is finite.

>resource and energy consumption in the West is unsustainable

You are making the "peak oil" mistake of assuming we will make zero technical progress in the future.

>>2459483
Modern period.

You don't have the expectation that half of your children will die before they are 5.

>>2459568
Are you arguing that the resources will keep up with our rapid consumption?

>>2459568
> You are making the "peak oil" mistake of assuming we will make zero technical progress in the future.
And you're being dangerously optimistic by assuming we can keep making significant technical progress indefinitely. We still have to live with the Laws of Thermodynamic and limited mineral resources we have at our disposal, even if we increase our efficiency of using them to 100%.

>>2459568
> you are making the "peak oil" mistake of assuming we will make zero technical progress in the future

Youre cooking rabbits that havent been caught

>>2459585
What do you imagine we are going to run out of?

Resources could be stretched to mean anything.

>>2459596
Why would technical progress stop? We have been progressing for all of human history.

>>2459606
>Youre cooking rabbits that havent been caught

We have been catching rabbits for a very long time. Assuming that tomorrow we will never catch one again is foolish.

>>2459483
Classical Greece
Early United States
Late 20th century developed world.

>>2459617
> Why would technical progress stop? We have been progressing for all of human history.
Technical progress =/= infinite energy/resources. You can advance your methods of extracting energy and raw materials up to 100%, but you can't create them out of nothing. Even when you use solar panels you don't create energy out of nothing, you "steal" it from the atmosphere, resulting in unpredictable weather and climate changes.

>>2459498
t. Fallout fag

>>2459642
>The universe is finite and thus pointless.

Shoo existentialist.

>>2459508
Cut back aid to every third world country and the problem solves itself in roughly two decades.

>>2459497
Not for the Congolese.

>>2459483
Every civilization had a different golden age.

>>2459492
t. materialist cuck

>>2460008
OP asked about human history.

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>>2460264
absolutely blown out the fugg

>>2459645
>he thinks Fallout 3 and 4 were real Fallouts
As far as I'm concerned those two never existed

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>>2460264

>>2459511
>for the minorities

>he thinks whites are the majority

"A-at least I still have duh constitushoooon"

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>>2460264

>>2459483
Today for sure.

>>2459497
What about the progresses in medical tech and general convenience of living? Even though private education is a bubble here in the US, it doesn't change the fact that we live in a time where an education is easier to get than ever before. Further, though our politics are corrupt, it's not like that's an anomaly. Politics has always been corrupt, even in republican societies, going back to Rome, perhaps even to Sumer and Babylon (I'm not going to act like i know shit about them).

>>2459498
Polio?

I mean, personally, I do like the 50s aesthetics of the nuclear family, religious society, etc., but that doesn't mean that society was better than then it is today.

>>2459511
Poor blacks in America have more access to tech than the richest white king did in the 1700s. Don't act like white people could go to any point in society and avoid wars, poverty, famines, etc. simply because white people ran society.

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>>2459483
Mesozoic

>>2460264
>>2460867
>>2460896
>>2460906
Obvious samefag

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A lively 15 months in 1919.

Everything before and after that has paled in comparison.

>>2460225
This fag gets it.

19th century best century... though Athenian democracy was bretty gud.

>Hellenophiles
No.
>>2462438
>Democracy
>good
*thighfucks boitoi*

>>2462450
>He doesn't want a good thighfucking from his alpha patrician master

>>2462450
>Athenian Democracy
>less than a third of society qualify as citizens
>elitist af
Yeah, I'd say it was pretty gud until they got scared and put Socrates in prison for "corrupting the youth"

>>2462506
Oh, I bet you just think you'd be one of the elite.

>>2462409
lol no

>>2462584
Yes I would.

>>2462615
>WE

>>2462621
Huh?

>>2462630
>WUZ

>>2462635
>>2462621
You're doing it wrong

>>2459483
1992

>>2462639
t. nordcuck

>>2462635
>GREEK ARISTOCRATIC ELITE

1945-1999


the 21st century has been shit.

1922-1991

>>2462643
Russian actually.

>>2462693
>russian
>thinks he would be an aristocrat or anything but a fucking slave in Greece
You're called 'slavs' for a reason.

>>2462703
Clean my toilet gypsy

8th of November 2016 to the 8th of November 2024

>>2459483
Pre WWI Europe or Post WWII U.S

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>>2462718
Only if you are Russian

>>2462728
Pretty sure Russia still sucks

>>2459483
late 20th century

>>2459483
Prohibition, the Mafia in it's Hey-Day

>>2460008
Fuck 'em.

>>2459483
Eden before the Fall of Man.

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>>2460264

>>2464888
/thread

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>>2460264