Optimist view: it’s not. There has never been a golden age. There were anarchists blowing up things in the early 1920s, WWI followed by II, institutional rac

Optimist view: it’s not. There has never been a golden age. There were anarchists blowing up things in the early 1920s, WWI followed by II, institutional racism, etc. Things have always been hard, just takes different forms. Pessimist view: strong generations bring good times, good times breed weak generations, weak generations bring hard times, hard times breed strong generations. You happen to be born right after some good times.