"The Edwardian era was the last era of high civilization."

I don't know, I had thought that sending human beings to the moon was a step forward.

"Edwardian Science and technology was the last time we actually had real progress in science and technology."

Again, I had thought nanotechnology and computing theory and hundreds of branches of medicine and myriad other fields had been conceived of and advanced in the time since the Edwardian era. But you seem to know best, Lupole Boucher.

"Social welfare programs like the Large Hadron Collider are brobdinagian, billion dollar avoidances of the Basic Question."

This irritates me. Using obscure wording and speaking intentionally over your audience is a tactic used when you're frightened of your arguments (or lack of) being torn apart or exposed. (He didn't even spell "brobdingnagian" correctly, the prick.)

I suppose there is some value to having read that, I can now use it as a cautionary tale and steer my life firmly away from the direction his seems to have taken.

Now good sir, do get off my lawn!

Curiously enough, this is literally true, in the sense that this was when the US surpassed Britain as the leading economic power. It would have happened regardless of WW I though.

This is regardless of whether the music is 5 or 50 years old.