I have a meeting which will take most of the day today. It is preoccupying my mind to such an extent that I am experiencing writers block. However, I'm also currently working on a novel and would like to ask you this question:
If you could choose any time period to live in, which one would you choose and why? Please be realistic. For instance, if you say you want to live in the Dark Ages, be fully aware that you could die of the Black Plague. (Only in the last 70+ years do we have the great advantages which we take for granted). So what's the trade-off for the era you choose? If you are willing to face the Black Plague, what is so special about that era that makes it worth living in?
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I'll pass on the Black Plague and any era with dysentary (sp) or rampant syphlis.
With those out of the way, I choose the era of blow dryers and indoor plumbing.
The American Revolution. I think being a part of seeing and helping the U.S. formed as a nation would be fascinating.
Someone else asked this question recently. I think I'd like to live in the days of LIttle House on the Prairie ... the 1800s. Life was simpler (though much harder).
Hope you are well.
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I'd love to be part of my grand-parents' generation: from the late 1800s to the 1970s. Imagine how much they must have gone through: the development of cars (as well as almost every other kind of technology), the two worlds wars (along with the disillusionment--and awareness of world matters-- that came with them), "les 30 Glorieuses", the first man to land on the moon...
I am good with where I am. We really do live in a "Golden Age"
I would be very curious to know what the world will offer in the next century.
Saur---Madelene wanted me to tell you she would go with the Revolutionary period. She has other thoughts too. Me? I'm bad with history or time periods...
No question, I even have a place to go with the time. I would want to live in the mid 1800's in the Buffalo River area of northwest Arkansas. I would build a cabin, raise a large garden, some livestock and spend my days fishing, hunting and whittling things out of wood.
I would pick "the future". A time period AFTER all the fundies have killed each other, and the rest of the world had time to rebuild. A time when our energy source is NOT based on stuff that died millions of years ago.
I want a Jetsons style flying bubble car. I want to take a SPACE cruise to Saturn this August - and just take the flying car to Mexico one weekend.
If this version of the future is not to be, then I would pick the 60s. TV was not that great - but at least it was in color and you could get AC in your house. Also, I could score a sweet Mustang Shelby or a Camaro with some insane large engine.
Also - hippie chicks were easy.
Oh yea - one more thing. I would take a side trip back to the time the IRS was created. I would become the first director (by force if need me - I could always bring back some cool space guns from the future). Then I would turn the baby agency into something SO HORRIBLE that Congress would outlaw the concept forever. I would do this by targeting law makers big time.
Everytime they flushed the toilet they would be required to file a form TOILET-FLUSH-5936A to justify the use of water. And if they filled out the form TOILET-FLUSH-5936B by mistake, they would be chained to the tree of woe to contemplate their crime against society.
I have always wished I was one of the great people who helped settle the West. So I guess I wish I lived in the 1840s to 1890s. Wide open spaces; freedom; quiet; peace...
You're right: there's a lot we currently take for granted. Back then, predjudice was far more rampant than now. I hope I would not have been guilty of looking down my nose at people of color--blacks, latins, asians. All these people made--and make--our country wonderful.
PS: I'm planning and preparing a coast-to-coast walk across America. Current schedule is 2010. I will be the oldest known person to do so. Please don't go around telling this to everybody. Somebody might beat me to it.
I can't think of an era that would be better than the one I am currently in. I love indoor plumbing and A/C way too much.
if I had to choose an era, I would choose any era as long as it was on a tropical island where the temperatures were in the 70's and 80's year round with occasional rain. I love rain.
I think it would be neat to be a fly-on-the-wall when Jesus walked the earth. To look upon the face of God's son even for a moment would be the coolest.
RIGHT NOW BABY!
Either that or Greece during the time of Homer.
well....I think I'd pick the 40's. I love the clothes and the era.
Please pray for us.
Gobhole day approacheth!
Nay Gobhole Day is HERE!!!!!!!
Right now. I don't know what I would do without the internet.
I'd like to time travel through history, while still maintaining the era I live in now.
Not sure that answers your question.... but it's something I've always thought would be cool to do.
The past is not really my thing... I like the PRESENT or the FUTURE! It is easy to glamorize the past, but I'm too spoiled by things like computers! ~ jb///
There are so many that I would like to see...but since I am not fond of body odor and require at least 2 showers a day I don't know if I could actually live them...
I think I am happy with here and now. There is always new innovative technology breaking through. It is fascinating.
As much as I might bitch, I'd have to say the now is where I'd stay, unless I could take my tech goodies (clean water, medicine, clothes washers, refrigerators, semi-automatic rifle) with me. You might get me to go back as far as the forties, since the music was good, the cars were cool, and the pace was slower, but, then, I'm a white male, too.
Could I have, like, a doorway so I could go back and forth?
I would have like to have been born about 15 years earlier. To have been an angry young man in the 60's, To have seen us put men on the moon, To witness the birth of the bikini & the miniskirt, To experience those massive changes in music, technology, society. And of course I would have bought my house before the property boom & so now be wealthy, close to retirement and even older and grumpier than I am now.
I would also like to live about a hundred years from now. To see the mars base. To read the unified theory of physics. To learn in history class about the huge sentences that Bush and Blair recieved from the Hague. To take a submersible tour of amsterdam. Hopefully to say 'wow' more than I say 'told you so'.
While I really enjoyed my childhood in the 80s, and hte 90s were pretty cool (and I love computers and the mondern technology), I can honestly say that I would most have liked to live during WWII and the 50s after it. In the country, somewhere. Before development had destroyed it.
i think id like to be 22 anytime! but right now is good time for me so i'll stay here I guess, but I would like to be 22 now1
js
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