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<p>Building on Ovid’s classification scheme of the four ages unfolding from the Golden Age to finally the last, the Iron Age, this experimental essay re-evaluates the proclaimed Golden Age of the present day as put forward by the current president of the USA. The essay does so by identifying systemic institutional infrastructures and the overall theme of dehumanization, especially by financial organizations and managers. The novelty of the essay is to understand not only humans as human beings, but also in their role as consumers as dehumanized and exploited in certain unethical practices. Taken together, this approach can be described as a modular allegory when combining the unrelated institutional infrastructures by sequential reading. The essay is intended as a poetic critique of current practices undermining ethics and humanistic principles. In closing, the essay proposes what a Golden Age in the Ovidian sense would look like, as Ovid’s classification was not about material ‘gold’ but virtuous people and societies.</p>

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Treasure Island PEPs SLAPP Muppets! Why the New, Proclaimed “Golden Age” Paves the Road to the “Iron Age” Dehumanizing Consumers

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    2026年3月18日

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  • Peter Seele

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Building on Ovid’s classification scheme of the four ages unfolding from the Golden Age to finally the last, the Iron Age, this experimental essay re-evaluates the proclaimed Golden Age of the present day as put forward by the current president of the USA. The essay does so by identifying systemic institutional infrastructures and the overall theme of dehumanization, especially by financial organizations and managers. The novelty of the essay is to understand not only humans as human beings, but also in their role as consumers as dehumanized and exploited in certain unethical practices. Taken together, this approach can be described as a modular allegory when combining the unrelated institutional infrastructures by sequential reading. The essay is intended as a poetic critique of current practices undermining ethics and humanistic principles. In closing, the essay proposes what a Golden Age in the Ovidian sense would look like, as Ovid’s classification was not about material ‘gold’ but virtuous people and societies.