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'The thing about Golden Ages is they do have to end...' (Pete, 'Golden Age of Radio' thread)

Even in these post 9-11 troubled times, would anybody say that we are in the Golden Age of something (anything!) now? Or are we as a race, only grateful for things when they have elapsed?

I don't know what its like in the US - but in the UK it seems like we're being bombarded with 'nostalgia' TV shows - 'I love 1996' etc.

In the words of St. Etienne (I think) 'What's anybody gonna remember this decade for?' Are we only in the Golden Age of Nostalgia? In what George Steiner calls 'a sense of twilight'?

― Will, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Will McKenzie, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a show called 1996? What are they nostalgic for? Whitewater?

― Samantha, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I've got a feeling that you inadvertantly answered your own question there Will. People will remember this age for 11/9 - we are probably in a golden age of paranioa right now. Year 2000 was the golden age of Nostalgia, the I Loves have been done to death along with the Top Ten's and no-one is watching them any more. Of course the mid eighties or so was another golden age for nostalgia when the Rock'n'Roll years were on and everyone was told to buy up their record collection again on CD.

I think one of the key moments when a golden age is about to end is when people realise that they are in a golden age (ie the scene starts to celebrate itself).

― Pete, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"the kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies"

― Geoff, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nostalgia etc: VERY INTERESTING, so interesting I have started countless discussions of it before and no sod bothered to reply, boo- hoo. I have possibly said all I have to say on the subject for the time being.

c. late 1990s / 2000/1: Golden Age of Affluence: the West: richer than ever before: large numbers of people more comfortable and more convenienced (at work, at home, etc) than ever before. Everyone thinks they can afford another Starbucks latte: everyone is sending everyone else inane messages all the time: everyone has heard of some ghastly new expensive bar where they only sell beer in poor-value bottles and the music is appalling and horribly loud, but no-one thinks it's a problem; everyone is going there straight after work, and everyone will be paying on their platinum card, which can doubtless take the strain, no worries, geezer.

(This judgment is not meant to occlude genuine problems for the millions left out of this settlement.)

― the pinefox, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pf = atop the dosh as per
george steiner = the stuart maconie of the cultural elite

― mark s, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the nineties where such a haven of exciting new music from american mainstream rockers and britpoppers. oh no! I just dripped sarcasm on the keys!

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(singin') "baby boomers, selling ya rumors of their history..."

― shinysteve, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe we are experiencing a belated "fin de siecle" mentality. No, I don't actually. I think it is the fact that we are having a rather dull moment (in art and such). As a result people like to dredge up the past. Oh the good old days, ladeeda.

― Helen Fordsdale, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

So *here* it is...

― the pinefox, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Will you marry me, pinefox?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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