You wouldn't like it here in the future...

[E-mantheseeker]

Usually in a moment of nostalgia, we think of a person who has died in the past that we would like to bring back to life, usually to continue their influences in the times we live in now. (Examples: Legendary musicians, influential political figures, revolutionists, etc...)

However, while still under the effects of nostalgia, the thought, "Would this person even like/accept waking up in our specific time at all?" hardly gets serious consideration.

Just a note: This was influenced by a conversation I had involving Kurt Cobain being brought back to life and reforming "Nirvana" with Dave Grohl.

So, the question is, what person/group/etc... would be better off not seeing what kind of world we live in now, in spite of nostalgia?

 

[Amarok]

Probably Frank Zappa, it's all just gotten worse!

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I'm pretty sure if Kurt Cobain was resurrected, he'd press charges against Courtney Love for murdering him.

OT: Any good musician, ever. I wouldn't want them to have to see the shit-crusted vomit stain that calls itself music, these days. I think even the darkest, most troubled musician would tell those whiny emo shits to grow up and get over themselves.

 

[Musicfreak]

Well I may be dumbing down the argument but If I were to die today and be given the chance to come back to life 200 hundred years later. I don't think I'd care what kind of hellish state the world is in, I'd take the offer.

 

[Quistnix]

Any Kamikaze pilot who thought his sacrifice made the world a better place.

 

[Nova Tendril]

Karl Marx.

 

[herpderderpdrerp]

Almost anyone who had high hopes for the future, we're fucking everything up worse and worse, haha.

It's so horrifyingly true that it's gone from not funny, to purely depressing, and so far down that it's become funny again how bad the human race is doing for itself

 

[ThaBenMan]

In a similar thread to this, one asking who you would like to resurrect, I thought it'd be interesting to bring back some old-timey rock musician like Buddy Holly and play some death metal for them to see what they think of it.

 

[CIA]

Karl Marx.

...poor guy. He would die(again) of shame.

 

[JokerGrin]

Elvis.

Seriously, I think he'd die (again) of embarrassment if he sees some of the impersonators out there.

 

[TaborMallory]

Cliff Burton would probably riot against new-age rock and metal.

 

[WendelI]

George Washington
I Bet he is going to say: "I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET IN OTHER COUNTRIES BUSSINESS! No one understood what I said?"

Another thing dough:
the world has always BEEEN shit, don't ever say that the world is crap today, but when the time that millions of people where dieing from the black plague or during the days of fearing Hitler or the soviet union where any better than today. Humanity's course trough the millennial has always been shit.

they would just be disappointed because what they did, well, was for nothing or had little to no value, or didn't turned out as planned.

 

[McClaud]

Yeah, famous people who go down as famous or founding something would always be disappointed to find out that their influence was largely convoluted by the rest of humanity to meet an ulterior motive/agenda to gain power/influence.

I know that most of our founding fathers would probably go nuts because there'd be an entire portion of the American people who would continue to misquote them even when they came back to life.

"I'm Sam Adams and I DIDN'T MEAN THAT WHEN I SAID FREEDOM OF *****! Stop saying that I did!"

"YES YOU DID. YOU MEANT THAT MY INTERPRETATION OF WHAT YOU SAID IS THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION EVEN IF YOU JUST TOLD ME IT WAS THE OPPOSITE!"

...

"SAM ADAMS SMASH!!!!"

 

[Meanmoose]

I think many of you guys are underating the world now and overating the world before. There has never been a higher standard of living than now. Poverty is at an all time low thoeghout the world. Music has never been more diverse. Cool technoligies sometimes makes our life super. I am really looking forward to the future.... provideing something really bad happens.

 

[McClaud]

I think many of you guys are underating the world now and overating the world before. There has never been a higher standard of living than now. Poverty is at an all time low thoeghout the world. Music has never been more diverse. Cool technoligies sometimes makes our life super. I am really looking forward to the future.... provideing something really bad happens.

While that may be true, historical figures of some popularity may lose it because their part in history always seems to be fairly corrupted by the designs of other people.

Seriously. Someone brought up Karl Marx, for example. He'd probably go nuts from what they did to his political philosophy and ideals. Not because the music and clothing are different.

 

[traceur_]

Karl marx, that guy would be PISSED!

also mozart, he would shit bricks when he heard the shitty music of today.

EDIT: and possibly sigmund freud, not because he would be disappointed with the world but because he had some pretty sexist theories and he would be torn apart by the really serious feminists.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Karl marx, that guy would be PISSED!

also mozart, he would shit bricks when he heard the shitty music of today.

Yup, any of the old composers would.

One of my mates told me psychologists reckoned if Mozart had been born today he would have fallen into the 'Heavy Metal' line of music, and that people who liked classical and people who like heavy metal were the closest together on the musical spectrum. I don't believe it for a second because this mate would lie about something like that just to antagonise me, so I'm a bit suspect of comments like those.

 

[garjian]

Karl marx, that guy would be PISSED!

also mozart, he would shit bricks when he heard the shitty music of today.

Yup, any of the old composers would.

One of my mates told me psychologists reckoned if Mozart had been born today he would have fallen into the 'Heavy Metal' line of music, and that people who liked classical and people who like heavy metal were the closest together on the musical spectrum. I don't believe it for a second because this mate would lie about something like that just to antagonise me, so I'm a bit suspect of comments like those.

depending on their opinion of synthetic sounds...
they would probably make something very close to Ambient...
otherwise... im guessing just classical music...

if they were born again... classical music would still exist and theyd make more,
if they were born now... they might invent classical music, but yeah... only of they cant stand synthetic music...

 

[Inverse Skies]

Except Beethoven. He was Deaf when he died so he probably wouldn't give a shit.

He wasn't deaf when he composed his earlier stuff.

Anyway, thats beside the point. I'm not actually backing the validity of that statement, as I said my friend is the sort who would lie like that just to stir people up. He's bloody good at it too, so I'm taking his advice with a grain of salt.