Old Age

English

Proper noun

Old Age

1. The mainstream of Western culture, especially as existed prior to the New Age movement.

   Coordinate term: New Age

   • 1988 December 11, Kiki Zeldes, “New Age: Cult Out Of Control”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 4:

     I have often wondered what's so "new" about the New Age; its basic tenets that we can completely create our own reality and that everything happens for a reason, to teach some sort of lesson, have always seemed to me to carry the same message as the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosophy of the Old Age.