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

[Hellz_Barz]

Not really cause if I was born into any other era I probably would have died shortly after birth. If I had to pick though I guess I'd wanna go to France in the 17th century and check out life as a musketeer. Swashbuckling about the country on missions and having scandalous affairs on the side, would be pretty darn sweet.

 

[Hosker]

I'm pretty old-fashioned, so sometimes I really want to see the 18th or 19th century. But then I think how much harder life was and all the diseases, and I decide against it. These are pretty good time overall.

 

[Lucifron]

The space flight is readily available to anyone at any time era.

 

[Soviet Steve]

i wish i had been born about 2-300 years ago

i have an honor code that does not fit in with todays world an a really strong urge to wander the highlands with a sword on my back.

its rather weird how strong this feeling/picture in my mind is tbth.

What would you wipe with?


Also I wish I could've been born in a utopian far future, but if we had to go backwards, I wouldn't want to. Despite occasional setbacks, overall humanity is on a constant climb, and always strives for more. Going backwards would be horrible.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Ladies and gentlemen I believe we have a troll.

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This is the first time, ever, I have been called a troll here.

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Not a good way to wake up.

 

[trooper6]

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.

Fair enough, I know exactly what overly too long days at work will do to you. Big hugs across internet to you!

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.

 

[trooper6]

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.

Randvek, you make me laugh so much with this post. More big hugs across the internet for you!

 

[trooper6]

i wish i was born back in the middle ages... less hassle when someone pissed you off

Only if you were noble. If you were a serf, then you don't get to do jack if someone pisses you off. And if your liege pisses you off, or decides that he is going to have non-consensual sex with your fiance on the night before your wedding...there's nothing you can do about it.

 

[Kaptajn Emil Alfred Conan Swagga Benzon]

Please give me the 80's! Music was much better back then, people were more loosened up, and the internet wasn't screwing shit up.

 

[gphjr14]

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

Being a minority I'd have to say hell no on that one.

Being born in the late 70s might have been nice. Though 87 (my birth year) wasn't so bad. I didn't have to deal with the majority of Reagan's BS and I survived 2 Bushes.

 

[Yoh3333]

Medieval Era definately.

I would love to have been born into a noble family in the medieval times.
Everytime i think about it i end up also remembering that it would suck so incredibily much because everyone else in that time lived a horrible life in comparison to our present lifestyle

 

[KefkaCultist]

Medieval era (but preferably not while the plague was going on).

I want to wield a giant battle axe in combat and behead someone then treat myself to whole lamb shanks and wenches!

 

[trooper6]

Please give me the 80's! Music was much better back then, people were more loosened up, and the internet wasn't screwing shit up.

I was lived through the 80s...and it wasn't great. It was terrible. There was some awesome music and some crappy music--just like now. But the 80s was time of paranoia, fear, and death.

People were dying of the newly emergent, but also mysterious, AIDS at shocking rates. And the governments did nothing. There was no test, no treatment, and people didn't even know how it worked.

The 80s were dealing with deindustrialization and the Reagan administration's attack on organized labor which resulted in an increase of homelessness that you can't imagine.

The cold war was so hot, that I was certain that I was going to die in a nuclear war. And if you listen to a large amount of 80s music, you will see it riddled with nihilistic references to an acceptance of the inevitability of our deaths in nuclear destruction. Prince's "1999" -- "Two Thousand Zero Zero party over--oops!--out of time. So tonight we're going to party like its 1999" --that's about nuclear holocaust. And it goes on and on like that.

The increasing hole in the ozone layer and acid rain made us aware of coming ecological destruction...but we didn't yet know how to fix or reverse that destruction.

There was a backlash against women's and civil and gay rights that resulted in a lot of stress for those people.

In the first half of the 1980s, there was also a real fear that we were heading headlong into a Orwellian world of 1984 with Reagan, Thatcher, and Kohl leading the US, UK, and Germany.

It was a terrible time.

 

[Kaptajn Emil Alfred Conan Swagga Benzon]

Please give me the 80's! Music was much better back then, people were more loosened up, and the internet wasn't screwing shit up.

I was lived through the 80s...and it wasn't great. It was terrible. There was some awesome music and some crappy music--just like now. But the 80s was time of paranoia, fear, and death.

People were dying of the newly emergent, but also mysterious, AIDS at shocking rates. And the governments did nothing. There was no test, no treatment, and people didn't even know how it worked.

The 80s were dealing with deindustrialization and the Reagan administration's attack on organized labor which resulted in an increase of homelessness that you can't imagine.

The cold war was so hot, that I was certain that I was going to die in a nuclear war. And if you listen to a large amount of 80s music, you will see it riddled with nihilistic references to an acceptance of the inevitability of our deaths in nuclear destruction. Prince's "1999" -- "Two Thousand Zero Zero party over--oops!--out of time. So tonight we're going to party like its 1999" --that's about nuclear holocaust. And it goes on and on like that.

The increasing hole in the ozone layer and acid rain made us aware of coming ecological destruction...but we didn't yet know how to fix or reverse that destruction.

There was a backlash against women's and civil and gay rights that resulted in a lot of stress for those people.

In the first half of the 1980s, there was also a real fear that we were heading headlong into a Orwellian world of 1984 with Reagan, Thatcher, and Kohl leading the US, UK, and Germany.

It was a terrible time.

Well, you can make anything sound terrible if you only focus on the bad things. Nowadays the world isn't much better.

A bunch of the problems you mentioned was mostly american problems. Here in Denmark, some of the greatest hits ever were wrote in the 80's. Same goes for many places in the rest of the world. Back then yes, there were crappy music too, but in an almost humorous way. In my opinion almost all music was better in the 80's. Personally I predominantly mostly listen to 80's music, and not because I'm obsessed with the eighties, but because I feel like the music was more 'true' in a sense. If you don't follow that, I'd prefer not to elaborate, because it's a pretty controversial matter, and a pain in the ass to argue with people about.

Anyway I see what you mean, but the world has been just as shitty ever since. So I'm kind of focusing on the more "positive" aspects.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

There are many eras that I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall, and just see if what's in history books or what's being written about it is actually true.

I wouldn't mind living in Renaissance Italy, specifically Florence since that where it mostly happened. Would be cool to see the politics, people, and architecture being built in that time, as long as I'm not dragged in the many wars and murdered I'm totally fine with it.

you should book a ticket to Florence sometime. its basically still exactly the same and is a-maze-ing

That's one of the places I want to go to and spend like a week there, and nerd out.

 

[Athol]

I sometimes wish I was born in the mid/late '40s (specificly in California), os I could grow up during the birth of hot rodding. In the '50s I would so be the guy in jeans and a tshirt, spending my weekends building my 'rod and racing it at the local dragstrip.

 

[Fidelias]

I want to be born in the future, with laser swords and robots! But I don't want to be born in the past, I can't survive without my computer!!!!