Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

We’ve been blind, and in our blindness, the enemy has returned.

-Gandolf ,

The Hobbit
The Desolation of Smaug