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I wouldn't have minded being born about 2050. I believe our children and grandchildren will see a world of technology and progress we cannot begin to imagine!
Glad someone is being optimistic. But I've always liked the style of the 70s. People just weird and out there back then pretty neat. I love 70s disco so that'd be cool. Then again progress has been made in so many areas in our country. So the here and now is pretty cool too. I'm just not into those folks that go and on and on about the good ol' days. I particularly wouldn't be interested in living in the Jim Crow 50s.
I think it's very easy to get misty eyed and nostalgic for an idea of a different era - I think the realities of it would probably suck though.
There are plenty of good things I could cherry pick from different eras but the problem, of course, would be that you'd have to take all the crappier stuff along with it too - be that widespread racism/segregation, far poorer medical treatment for example.
I would like to time machine different eras, but I am very happy with my life, and wouldn't trade what I have seen, albeit painful at times. I would love to go back and spy on my ancestors for as far as a time machine would take me.
Not speaking for myself, but I have a teenaged daughter who wishes she'd been born in the 60's, so she could have enjoyed the 80's. She thinks everything then was better - music, the birth of MTV, movies, fashions, a president who the world knew would kick butt if he had to, a cool Michael Jackson, and NO POLITCAL CORRECTNESS. Myself, I wish I'd been born a little bit sooner (I was born in '60) so I could have appreciated Beatlemania.
I'm pretty happy right now. I love the fashions and the music of the 40s 50s and 60s, so I dress like they did and listen to the same music. I like having the advantage of being able to have my own career, be educated and not have to be stuck at home with kids (for those that do, that's great..it's just not for me).
I think you can have the best of both worlds in your attitude...if you want to be extra 'moral' (although, morality is entirely objective) then do it! If you want to live like it's the 1800s...then do it! (the slave thing is not cool though...)
I loved growing up in the 90s. We had good shows on Nickelodeon, I rode horses and raised dairy goats while participating in 4H...it was great!
Nope, I grew up in the 60's and, once out of high school, loved the hell out of it, was a great time to be young (well, except for the draft thing, not that it really affected me much, I joined the corps in 66), not one of my wiser moves.
Really? I would imagine that 200 yrs from now the planet would be completely deforested or polluted, teeming with humanity, devoid of wildlife....unless of course something is done along the way to curb that.
I think of Earth 200 yrs ago, it was more pristine, cleaner, and more beautiful.
Unless you're talking about travel to other planets where we can settle there and hopefully not destroy it.
Which time period do you wish you were born in? And why?
I think it would've been great to be born in the 50's and be a young adult in the 70's. Life then was simpler than now, but then freer than the 50's.
yes, I would like to be there when the Bill of Rights was written and have the word "expressly" written into the 10th Amendment.
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