Great topic BB. There is no doubt this is the golden time for all things. No person in history has had such a comfortable life and lived as long and as well as the average western male today.
Not to mention the general availability of everything we could possibility want, LBs, GGs, etc., food, warmth etc.
If we can just keep the Islamic fundamentalists in their cage we should all get another 20 or 30 years out of it before the next big thing rocks our world.