When would you like to live?

[DavisJ3608]

Picture it - America in the 60's. Even though we were in the middle of the cold war, and even though communist witchhunts were everyday, it was still a time when unquestioning patriotism and "American ideals" were promoted, encouraged, and lauded. I'm not necessarily saying those qualities are good, but it was a much more honest time period then today.

 

[Curiosity's Cat]

Being a chick I have to say I probably wouldn't have much fun anywhere too far back, when we were still getting a raw deal, although renaissance Italy would have been interesting.

So I guess I would have liked to be around in the sixties, possibly in America or England rather than Australia, cos I don't think we Aussies went with the hippie thing quite as much.

I want to know what I was like to have lived through the hippy era thinking change was really coming and the world was becoming a better place. There's a passage in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" somewhere that describes it... [looks it up]

"There was madness in any direction, at any hour... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...

And that, I think was the handle-- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-- on our side or on theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding on the crest of a high and beautiful wave..."

I found it a hard book to read but that bit always captured my imagination.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Now is fine.

 

[Lord Kofun]

The '50s. Back when Swing was the main deal and women were classy/sexy, not hot, and men didn't have their pants around their knees.

Either that or around the time when J.S.Bach was in Germany, doing his thing. He wrote the most metal musical pieces EVER, citing his fugues as the only proof I need.

 

[Lord Kofun]

the 50s. just looked so casual yet formal. i couldve been a greaser

Amen, brother.

 

[YuheJi]

I would most definitely prefer it either now, or sometime in the future where skin color and sex aren't major issues.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

I think the time I grew up in was pretty sweet. Born in 1984, I got to grow up with awesome cartoons, and i got to be a kid right at the cusp of the mainstream popularity of videogames (everyone had an NES in elementary school, a Genesis or SNES in middle school, a PS1 in junior high, and a Dreamcast and PS2 in high school... with a PC throughout).

Also, people my age got to just barely miss the whole MySpace, text-centric culture that pervades high school now (which I get to watch like Jane goddamned Goodall thanks to having a younger sister). Sure, a lot of my old high school friends are in to that whole community, but it wasn't so deeply and dangerously ingrained in us as it is for this next generation. It's not that we don't still have that unreasonable sense of entitlement that they do... we just know how to CALL SOMEONE when we want to talk to them.

But the availability of information, music, media, and entertainment via the internet makes me glad I didn't grow up in any other known era.

HOWEVER... my dad (who was a teenager in the 70's) has all kinds of crazy stories from his days touring with a band across the northeast US, and I frequently regret the fact that my most exciting stories involve my videogame accomplishments. That is, of course, my own fault, but still... might have been cool to be around in those days.

 

[Lord Kofun]

Picture it - America in the 60's. Even though we were in the middle of the cold war, and even though communist witchhunts were everyday, it was still a time when unquestioning patriotism and "American ideals" were promoted, encouraged, and lauded. I'm not necessarily saying those qualities are good, but it was a much more honest time period then today.

Don't forget the Who, the Beatles, and a life sans emo people.

 

[SSoneill]

Maybe 1950s-1960s because of its eerie feel but bioshock and fallout may have made it more fun then it really was,most likely it would have to be during the days of the Roman Empire

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

I was thinking 1800 - 1815, then repeat the cycle.

(Napoleonic Wars....)

 

[Clayman]

1950s America. Happy times

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

HMMMMMM... The old west really appeals to me, live and die by the gun, wander the frontier, wear cool hats, ride horses. I could live a lot more free and unhindered. Except slower travel times, oh well you level up faster that way...(oblivion joke)

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Ten years from now. I think by then the recession will be over and science will have progressed enough so that life is more convenient but not too much so that we all get lazy.

You mean we aren't already...?

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Now or at height of Imperial Rome during the reign of the five good emperors, both have plumbing and relative stability.

 

[ae86gamer]

exactly one minute from now.