For example, in the past, there was the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Classical era and the Age of Enlightenment etc.
For some reason, I'd probably name the present as the Age Of Pseudo-Enlightenment or the Age of Anti-Renaissance.
Now it's your turn, if you please...Do give your reasons for your christening and do tell me the time period you are referring to. My choices are controversial, so I'd refrain! LOL.
2006-10-20 23:20:08 · 16 answers · asked by Yahoo user 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
The Gilded Years. On the surface it looks fine, but on closer examination you can see its all fake.
2006-10-20 23:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pre-neo-enlightenment era.
We are in a transition period. From around the world the media have brought wars, death, destruction, famine and inhumanity into our living rooms. People are beginning to realise this can't continue and are seeking change on a global scale.
Neo-enlightenment will sweep the world. It will encourage the individual right of freedom of expression and has no tolerance for shunning, banning, gossip, and personal denigration of any kind. Neo-enlightenment sees creative human expression as a manifestation of the Divine Spirit and does nothing to suppress the desire for self-discovery. The consequence of this is the desire to protect and encourage those who are weaker and less experienced. In environments where we are encouraged to grow and learn there is no need for violence to be used as a tool to suppress threatening ideas. There is no need to hex someone who does not share your world view or will not support you in the process of self-gratification of all your wants and desires. Neo-enlightenment will be about finding your inner light and letting the light shine in the world as a beacon of inspiration and not as a tool of domination and control.
Let's hope that is how this period is viewed by future historians.
2006-10-21 00:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't call it the Elizabethan era, we have already had one of those. In keeping with naming after British royalty, eg Victorian, Edwardian etc. I guess we could call it the Windsor era. Either that or the digital age.
2006-10-20 23:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Age of Commerce ?
The Bland Era ?
The Age of Disillusionment ?
I think the name would have to reflect that somehow we seem to have lost our way & instead of a brave new world, we have constant bickering (& wars) & a desperate race to sell each other all sorts of bland cr*p.
2006-10-20 23:24:44 · answer #4 · answered by Well, said Alberto 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think of that historians will view their previous as we view ours. like the 70's are the "hippi" years and the eighty's while desktops got here into the image. and that they'll think of our music is stupid and our kinds of outfits are weird and wonderful and our technologies is common. i think of they'll possibly think of why we did what we did, as historians now attempt to parent why human beings migrated to u . s . of america over the ice caps, or how human beings made the alphabet. yet no person will understand each thing with reference to the previous via fact there are cases in background that weren't documented.
2016-10-02 12:44:23 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say the 19th, 20th (and possibly 21st) centuries should be called (not christened) The Age of Irrationality.
2006-10-20 23:30:54 · answer #6 · answered by langdonrjones 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technohell
2006-10-20 23:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd call it the compilation era because of the huge amount of mixing that is going on i.e. racial, emotional, commercial everything involved in today's everyday living.
2006-10-20 23:26:31 · answer #8 · answered by Tallie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Period of Religious Zealotry...
2006-10-20 23:27:21 · answer #9 · answered by Abe A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The polluting age.
2006-10-21 00:15:09 · answer #10 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋