The Color of Sunset

"They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen’s ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms."

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Scenius, or Communal Genius
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Kevin Kelly
Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.
from Where's Today's Beethoven? by Holden Karnofsky
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“High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world. The high modernist movement was particularly prevalent during the Cold War, especially in the late 1950s and 1960s.”
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High Modernism Wiki
"and George began to wonder, in capital letters, just What Was Going On."
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Childhood’s End
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from Where's Today's Beethoven? by Holden Karnofsky