When was the golden age of humanity?

If you're implying Ancient Greece, you're right.

>>2729322
Yea, I kinda was.
/thread?

>>2729307
Today.

1991-1999

>>2729307
It started in 1945 and has yet to end

>>2729307
>Current Year

>>2729374
Sad

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>>2729307
I won't know when it was for you faggots, but for the glorious Dutch WERELDRIJK it was 1815-1830, when we were ruled over by a most capable king who's domain extended over all of the Netherlands and a vast colonial empire that brought wealth to the Dutch WERELDRIJK.

Untill the Belgians started fucking it over like those retarded Catholic Frenchdutchies always do.

>>2729432
nobody called it "wereldrijk", and the haydays of the dutch were centurys before king gorilla started his rule

>>2729307

When Golden Yrnë was strong, before the drowning of the med and the coming of the Children of Man.

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>>2729449
REEEE patriottensympathisant confirmed

Get out patriotten get out.

>>2729403
>>2729404
>>2729409
>>2729410
>>2729418
Just moronic

it will begin soon

probably 2025 or so

>>2729307
now

>>2729307
Depends on what you value in society.
Personally, I believe that Rome under Augustus was the golden age.

1945-1973 for the Western world.

For the rest of humanity, it's still to come.

>>2729658
It was a very short "age" then.

>>2729668
Yeah, I guess I should refer to Pax Romana. It's just that it was best under Augustus.

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>>2729307
Saturday the 29th of April 2017, 03:18:44 (GMT+1).

But then, a terrible calamity of a thread happened and all civilization came crashing down. If only they had known what their actions were going to bring about...

>>2729307
It's always the golden age of humanity if you aren't a shitter in your respective age.

>>2729307
2nd crntury.

>>2729307
1950-60

>>2729307
Pre-Deluvian Mesopotamia.

>>2729980
Dummie.

>>2729307
The period between the War of Northern Agression and WWI.

>>2729307
December 25, 1991 - September 11, 2001

>>2729307
1950s

>>2729487
that you are

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>>2729987
christfags broke trolling, it's literally impossible to know what's bait these days

>>2729307
If I've learned anything it's that 'golden ages' are extremely brief and localised.

Prehistory

>>2729307
The reign of King George III of-course.

1968 to 1972
Beggars Banquet to Exile on Main Street

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>>2729432
After 1800 the Eternal ANGLO had already stolen the majority of our colonies. The true Dutch golden age was 1600-1672

Around 1150 to 1350.

That was the height of Western civilisation, the greatest civilisation in human history. It all went to shit after that.

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>>2730727
>t. Spergler

>>2730731
I don't think Spengler actually says that, although that might just be because he has trouble reconciling his German nationalism with the fact that Western civilisation is centered not on Germany but on France.

>>2730036
correct answer

1995-2007

>>2729307
Today
>>2729403
/thread

>>2729629
That's when it's going to get worse.

>>2729307
Ancient Greece, Roman Republic and early empires. We are currently in a second period of enlightenment with the internet, but the average way of life required to live and compete within the current system is not very pleasant.

>>2729307
The Golden Age ofcourse

It's now. Every single period from the past is romanticized as fuck.

Right now we have a robust economy (even if far from perfect), decent access to medicine, freedom of speech, freedom of easy travel, a well-connected world.

Name one period from the past where a regular wage cuck family could go spend a holiday half-the-world away.

RIght now. Everything else is delusion.

>>2731017
>>2731041

based anons

Didn't the guy from the matrix say the mid 90s were the peak of human civilisation

>>2729487

Today is the right answer though. All of human history has been pretty shit, but at least now we can play video games and browse the internet with just a tiny portable phone. Personally I wouldn't call any part of human history "golden," but if it's a term that has to be applied somewhere to denote the least bad part of history, then yeah, that'd be the current part.

>>2731190

The peak of human civilization for the Matrix universe was always going to be whenever the current time in history was. It had to be because the plot involved starting in what seemed like our world before revealing they're actually in the future and our world is an illusion created to keep us occupied while our bodies are mined for robot energy. If they picked any other time earlier or to the future of the then current real world time then the movie would lose its effect of making you feel like the beginning is real only to have it revealed as an illusion.

>>2731220
>All of human history has been pretty shit, but at least now we can play video games and browse the internet with just a tiny portable phone.

This is The best time ever because mediocre people have new tools to become even more creative? If a tolerable life is all you're looking for, the XX century was infinitely better than the XXI.

If greatness is what you're looking for, the XXI century is the worst century so far.

>>2731265

>to become even more creative

Where are you getting that from? It's the best point in history to date because at least you can distract yourself with the internet and video games at essentially any time and location you feel like.

>"""greatness"""

We're a bunch of retarded diseased meat monkeys that rot away in under a century on average and shit out of holes right next to our genitals. On a piece of dirt in the middle of nowhere without even a single instance of contact made to any other life in the entirety of the universe.

>>2731287
>Where are you getting that from?
Brain fart, substitute creative with mediocre.

>It's the best point in history to date because at least you can distract yourself with the internet and video games at essentially any time and location you feel like.

This seems to me a great flaw of our time. What human should soend his life this way?

>We're a bunch of retarded diseased meat monkeys that rot away in under a century on average and shit out of holes right next to our genitals. On a piece of dirt in the middle of nowhere without even a single instance of contact made to any other life in the entirety of the universe.

Greatness is a human concept, it makes no sense to relate it to the immensity of nature. Will you eat tonight, or is it too unimportant when compared to the gisnt stars of our galaxy? Get a grip.

>>2730727
>>2730731
Western civilization will collapse any moment now, trust me guyz :^)))))

>>2731308

>This seems to me a great flaw of our time. What human should so end his life this way?

Nobody asked to exist in the first place. And while some can end their lives, it's not necessarily easy for everyone to do this since we have instincts and learned habits / emotions that build up over time and strongly deter you from euthanasia.

>Greatness is a human concept, it makes no sense to relate it to the immensity of nature.

Humans are a part of nature.

>Will you eat tonight, or is it too unimportant when compared to the gisnt stars of our galaxy?

Eating on a regular basis isn't really much of a conscious decision. Rationally you shouldn't eat, you should just end your life, but you're not free to act on rationality alone.

>>2731265
>If greatness is what you're looking for, the XXI century is the worst century so far.
How so? It's hard to achieved greatness nowadays because we already achieved so much. That doesn't mean you can't discover something new or improve our society in some way. Scientists do this every day.

In the past the majority of people were illiterate peasants. Do you think they could easily achieve greatness?

>>2730674
Really makes you think

Unironically now but the world is still garbage.

Human life has never not been exceptionally miserable. Periods of light (ancient Greece, republican Rome, early medieval Byzantium, Sassanian Persia, Carolingian Germany, Islamic Spain, Tang China, renaissance Italy, republican Netherlands, Bourbon France, Regency England, pre-Nazi Berlin) have just been times and places where communities of elites and intellectuals had been able to find each other and make something beautiful.

Science. Culture. History. Humanity. Long ago, the three world powers lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Space Noids attacked. Only the Emperor, master of all humanity, could stop them, but when humanity needed him most, he vanished.

>>2731382

^This, you're really kidding yourself if you think life has ever been good.

>In Thailand they have the tradition of printing books at funerals, and in the beginning of each book there will usually be a little biography of the person to whom the merit is dedicated. A lot of the best Dhamma books in Thailand are the ones printed at funerals, so as you read these Dhamma books you can’t help but look at some of the biographies. They all follow the same pattern. The person was doing well, had a happy life, wife, husband, children, whatever. Then after a while he or she started to develop a particular ailment, maybe a little bit of kidney problem, a liver problem, maybe a heart problem. At first it didn’t seem too serious, the medicine took care of it, but after a while it became more and more chronic, more and more troublesome, ultimately to the point where doctors couldn’t do anything. They just had to throw up their hands, and although they did their best, the person died. And it’s ironic: The human mind has the tendency to think, “Well, that’s them. Somehow I’m different.” But you’re not different. Look at yourself; look at all the people around you. What disease will strike down the person next to you? What disease will strike down that person over there? What disease do they already have inside them that’s ultimately going to do that?

http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/CrossIndexed/Published/Meditations2/040301%20M2%20Contemplation%20of%20the%20Body.pdf

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it is now. or in 2100, not sure

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>>2730727
This

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1648 - 1789

now