Do you ever wish you were born in a different era?

[figday]

Yeah, sometimes.

 

[Voidrunner]

Yeah sometimes I wish I could have been born a lot earlier when things weren't nearly as complicated, a place where you could wander around making your own way through a simple life without constantly having to deal with governments and a million other people hassling you and finding new inventive ways to rip money out of you. Sure the modern era has brought a great deal of improvements but in a lot of cases simple things have just gotten so pointlessly complex and painful.

You're going to have to go back to hunter-gatherer before you find no government.

And for most of history, the government didn't rip money out of you...the government owned you...and you didn't have any rights to your own property or money. And you couldn't just wander around making your way through a simple life because you were a serf and bound to the land you didn't own. You weren't allowed to travel off your land. You couldn't go hunting for food, because everything belonged to your liege. And they'd tax you on top of all that.

The only time when people aren't ripping money out of you is before there was money. And then people were ripping goods off of you. And the only time when people weren't ripping goods off of you is before surplus farming, when everyone lived hand to mouth and there was no one who had anything extra of anything. It was all hunter-gathering. And back then, while not some sort of government, you probably had a strong man/chief who got to call all the shots by virtue of being more violent and better at violence than everybody else--until someone killed him.

The past was not fun, and it certainly wasn't a libertarian paradise.

I apologise for not making myself clearer, the medieval days were incredibly unpleasant and I was not intending to paint them as paradise. The main point I was trying to get across was the point of things being much simpler back in hunter/gatherer days which is mere wishful thinking after a hassling day and I came across like an anti government imbecile because I didn't think before venting.

 

[Jester00]

some years earlier, i wanna see the beginning of pc gaming.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Nah I'm cool with being an 80's child. A little bit futher into the future would have been nice but then I wouldn't have gotten to experience the awesome power of thundercats first hand. I think I live in a pretty cool age though. My grandma is 90 and that freaks me out a bit all of the changes she has seen since like 1921 it's a little mind blowing.

 

[Saulkar]

I honestly wish I was born in the early mid eighties because I have always been more attracked to the nineties.

 

[Sprinal]

Yeah th Future.

Well its a different era....

Seriously.
Flying cars
Governments that actually invest in space travel
Resorce rich solar system
Alien Races (hopefully)


Man It would be EPIC!!!

 

[RAWKSTAR]

I'd like to be a rich white man in 1619....

 

[Sir Boss]

I'd love to see the the world between the 50's and the 80's, live through it's youth culture,
and then i'd jump back in to my time machine and introduce the 900's to the fantastic device known as the automatic firearm

 

[iamthe1]

I wish I was born in the future, so that I could have cybernetic implants, and a flying car, and live on Mars...

Every era in history sucks. We just pretend like they don't so we don't have to focus on how much OUR era sucks. Just be glad that if you put in the effort you can live to be 150, and that everyone can vote for whatever useless crap they want. And if you can afford it, you can get a $10000-an-hour hooker.

Now THAT's progress!

 

[Randvek]

You're going to have to go back to hunter-gatherer before you find no government.

You are being too generous even then. Many, many species have "alpha males." If one critter telling all the other critters who gets the food and the females isn't an oppressive government, I don't know what is. Go back to single-celled organisms to find no government. Maybe. If two animals can communicate, you can be sure that one of them is the boss.

The past was not fun, and it certainly wasn't a libertarian paradise.

It must be fun to be libertarian. You know, being crazy but still being able to function in society.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

I always wish I would have been born before World War II and been about 18 years old when the war started.

I'm going to agree with you there. Or mabye earlier. I think it'd be interesting to watch all that unfold, in a morbidly interesting way.

 

[Tiger Sora]

If I had to choose any era I'd choose to be born in 1950, so I'd grow up during the rock era. And be old now so I can yell at the new fangled generations while making sure rap never happens.

 

[Ghengis John]

Yeah sometimes I wish I could have been born a lot earlier when things weren't nearly as complicated, a place where you could wander around making your own way through a simple life without constantly having to deal with governments and a million other people hassling you and finding new inventive ways to rip money out of you. Sure the modern era has brought a great deal of improvements but in a lot of cases simple things have just gotten so pointlessly complex and painful.

You're going to have to go back to hunter-gatherer before you find no government.

And for most of history, the government didn't rip money out of you...the government owned you...and you didn't have any rights to your own property or money. And you couldn't just wander around making your way through a simple life because you were a serf and bound to the land you didn't own. You weren't allowed to travel off your land. You couldn't go hunting for food, because everything belonged to your liege. And they'd tax you on top of all that.

The only time when people aren't ripping money out of you is before there was money. And then people were ripping goods off of you. And the only time when people weren't ripping goods off of you is before surplus farming, when everyone lived hand to mouth and there was no one who had anything extra of anything. It was all hunter-gathering. And back then, while not some sort of government, you probably had a strong man/chief who got to call all the shots by virtue of being more violent and better at violence than everybody else--until someone killed him.

The past was not fun, and it certainly wasn't a libertarian paradise.

I apologise for not making myself clearer, the medieval days were incredibly unpleasant and I was not intending to paint them as paradise. The main point I was trying to get across was the point of things being much simpler back in hunter/gatherer days which is mere wishful thinking after a hassling day and I came across like an anti government imbecile because I didn't think before venting.

A couple of intelligent responses. Nice to see.

 

[Meestor Pickle]

About 38 thousand years in the future, stay for one day then reply on a thread saying how good M2 was.

I'd like to be a rich white man in 1619....

And have a worse life than almost the poorest in western society do today!

 

[Arif_Sohaib]

Yes, I wish I was born in time to still explore the world, and specifically be around during the "golden age" of Piracy. Either that or I wish I was born much later than now when we make first face to face contact with an alien species, or have the capability to travel in space. Essentially I just wish there was somewhere new to go and vastly undiscovered.

Edit: As for living in the past if I did die of some horrible disease that we have a cure for now I think I would be ok with that in trade for a life at sea.

You can go to the Amazon Jungle or the south pole or really deep under sea level. All these are still unexplored.
As for piracy just go to Somalia or Piratebay.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

around the year 2552 would be fine,

 

[Captain Pirate]

I sometimes wish I'd been born back in the days of ancient Sparta; you know, being brought up a warrior from birth.

 

[Rayne870]

Yes, I wish I was born in time to still explore the world, and specifically be around during the "golden age" of Piracy. Either that or I wish I was born much later than now when we make first face to face contact with an alien species, or have the capability to travel in space. Essentially I just wish there was somewhere new to go and vastly undiscovered.

Edit: As for living in the past if I did die of some horrible disease that we have a cure for now I think I would be ok with that in trade for a life at sea.

You can go to the Amazon Jungle or the south pole or really deep under sea level. All these are still unexplored.
As for piracy just go to Somalia or Piratebay.

I wouldn't fit in with the Somalians and probably wouldn't last long against the various naval forces fighting them, but that would probably be quite a bit of excitement. Since this was about the era though, something about black powder and privateering just sort of calls to me.

I sometimes wish I'd been born back in the days of ancient Sparta; you know, being brought up a warrior from birth.

Hell I would go just for the Spartan women.

 

[Jonluw]

I used to wish that I was born in medieval times. Then I realized that they had the plague, poverty, no hygiene, tyranny and all that shit.