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Now, if I could live in the Hollywoodized version of history (where we never have to wonder what they are using for toilet paper, etc.) I'd live in the age of discovery and sail. 1500's to 1600's. I would like to have been an explorer in that time.
If I could have been born in 1747 instead of 1947, I could have run the trails with Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook through the pristine wilds of early America before the Industrial Revolution -- my idealized "perfect" time to have lived.
Hey, my creds are good! I grew up on an off-grid farm without plumbing or electricity and have camped and hunted my whole life.
No. There is never any time as good as the present. The World and humankind continues to get better and better with each new day. I would never go backwards.
I like the modern comforts, but I would have to say in the 40's during WWII, when the country was patriotic and not so freaking lame. When we treated war heroes as heroes and not like murderers and baby killers. When our kids could play outside with toy guns and not get the cops called. When people were nicer to their neighbors and everyone knew everyone. When our kids could walk to school without being abducted. When people worked hard, and were proud of it.
I'm 44 and am happy to be in this timeline right now. Specially guitar wise. I am old enough but young enough to know and appreciate 60's music like Hendrix, the Doors and such plus the 70's, 80's , 90's and up to right now. Guitar in rock has progressed alot since the 50's.
And the internet has revolutionized our lives, great to have it. And there is AC, live in Fl and you will appreciate it.
I don't undestand those that say they would like to live in the 40's or 50's because it was supposedly happier times, what is stopping you from being personally happy right now? If you were 18 in the 40's there is a good chance you lived to be 19 or 20 because you would be laying on a european or island battlefield.
If you lived before that there is a good chance that a injury was fatal or you were amputated.
And besides, people were not more moral in the 50's, they just hid it more.
Your comment about being a young adult in the 40s is absurd. You're saying that the majority of 18-21 year old boys died in WWII?
During the time after WWII, the economy was booming, incomes were rapidly increasing, companies were hiring, there was a sense of optimism, housing was cheap and a young adult could get a secure job, a home, marriage and family all by their early 20s and afford to live off of one income.
Aside from racism and less rights for women, things were better then.
Now, if I could live in the Hollywoodized version of history (where we never have to wonder what they are using for toilet paper, etc.) I'd live in the age of discovery and sail. 1500's to 1600's. I would like to have been an explorer in that time.
I would love that too. Being able to show up on any shore, not going through coustoms, no airport, not being felt up or blasted with unnessecary radiation. But I do like that travel times, better now a days. Being on those ships for months at a time would suck.
I don't know that I would want to live out my life in any other time period --- but boy would I love it if I could be a time travelling tourist. To live a few months as a flapper, as a pioneer, as a colonist or to see the Renaissance unfold live and in person would be my idea of heaven.
I don't know that I would want to live out my life in any other time period --- but boy would I love it if I could be a time travelling tourist. To live a few months as a flapper, as a pioneer, as a colonist or to see the Renaissance unfold live and in person would be my idea of heaven.
It wouldn't be heaven, but it would be pretty cool! To watch the pyramids being bult, or stonehenge!!
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