I assure you we are in a golden age.
Not the first, won't be the last (Well, maybe this one will, we do have the technological capability to clear the planet of all meaningful life).
I expect that as no more of this Great Society will survive the next Ice Age than survived the last one...
“Not the first, won’t be the last (Well, maybe this one will, we do have the technological capability to clear the planet of all meaningful life).”
Assuming we know all of history worth knowing, our society may be the “highest.” On the other hand, The Vedas tell stories of a time when weapons of similar power were used. Maybe that’s why we don’t know all the history we think we do? If we do, anyway. To us, Atlantis is a myth. Will we someday be a myth, also?