Golden Age

Audiobook samples:

The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant

"Personal experience has been swept from our understanding of reality, replaced by the abstract, mathematical grid of space-time."

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

"Most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do."

"How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television."

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

"The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss."