Do you want to live back then?

I do know people who would be right at home on an ancient battlefield, putting their axe through the skull of a Gaul.


Me? I would prefer to go about 300 years into the future.


That's just me.
 
clarsct said:
I do know people who would be right at home on an ancient battlefield, putting their axe through the skull of a Gaul.
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That's Dwight describing Marv from Sin City, isn't it?
 
I certainly wouldn't mind vacationing in the past.
I'd enjoy seeing New York in 1900 with its oyster houses and all-night markets. I'd like to sail from Australia and get some hot Tahitian love in the 1700s. And I'd like to go back to '79 and live like an adult in the world of my childhood.

But go back to stay - never.
 
bigred said:
Er are we talking having to go back hundreds of years or ANY time in the past? If the latter, yeah, I'll take post WW II-era Alex. Lack of technology more than made up for by a much less obnoxious, much more disciplined and much saner society. Easily. No rap "music" blasting away at every street corner? No schools where kids have to be checked for weapons? Drug use and irresponsible sex among teens basically unheard of? Marriage vows that are taken seriously? No fear of leaving your doors unlocked? Give me 60 seconds, my bags are packed.
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You can have all that now. Just move to Canada.
 
clarsct said:
I do know people who would be right at home on an ancient battlefield, putting their axe through the skull of a Gaul.


Me? I would prefer to go about 300 years into the future.


That's just me.
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I agree with the posters who say they'd rather live in the future. Look around. We're basically on the tail end of the Dark Ages. In about 50 years from now, there's a decent chance that everyone will live in a liberal republic or a democracy, there will be no significant gender or racial inequality, there will be decent protections against near earth objects, and we'll all have youthful immortality and be able to be whatever color, size, and shape we want. We may be living on the tail end of the era of human brutality. I wouldn't have minded being born a few decades later and missing it completely.
 
bigred said:
. . .Drug use and irresponsible sex among teens basically unheard of? . . .

Teen pregnancy hit a high of almost 100 births per thousand teens 15-19 years old. In 2001 that rate was 48 births per 1000 teens. (all teens, not just sexually active ones).

Baca Zinn and Eitzen Diversity In Families.

I can't speak to the drug use, but as far as sex goes . . . Teens today are better than their 1960's counter-parts at preventing long-term consequences of sexual activity. Irresponsible sex may have been unheard of, but it was happening. As was date rape, incest, etc.
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Admiral said:
That's Dwight describing Marv from Sin City, isn't it?
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Yeah.(mostly)

Problem is, I KNOW people like that.

Hell, my father fits that particular mold. We're talking about a man who usaed to take me to the bars to 'babysit' me when I was a kid. I remember seeing him hit a 200lb man in the chest, sending him flying into the wall. Cold. Knocked the wind straight out of him.(The old man had 24" arms)

Yes, I grew up in rural IL, why do you ask?
 
bigred said:
Er are we talking having to go back hundreds of years or ANY time in the past? If the latter, yeah, I'll take post WW II-era Alex. Lack of technology more than made up for by a much less obnoxious, much more disciplined and much saner society.
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Yeah, JIm Crow laws child and spousal abuse not even investigated, polio epidemics - those were the days.


Easily. No rap "music" blasting away at every street corner? No schools where kids have to be checked for weapons? Drug use and irresponsible sex among teens basically unheard of? Marriage vows that are taken seriously? No fear of leaving your doors unlocked? Give me 60 seconds, my bags are packed.
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Sounds like you are pining for Teheran.
 
Go back! Listen I did this experiment once with a delorian, and Michael J Fox nearly destroyed civilization. But on a serious note, yes there was no atom bomb in the dark ages but there was still injustice. And I believe the black plague killed more than both atom bombs unleashed in Japan. It was about 1 third of Europe’s population. Also the only reason may not seem as bad back then is because there was no media to tell us about it.
 
Then again maybe I could go back and organize my Native American ancestors to destroy Columbus’s ship in the harbor. Then do like wise to the mayflower. If I gave them a century or so to prepare for it I'm sure they could fend them off.
 
Guess I better take care of the Vikings too, since everyone knows they beat Columbus to the new world. Then some say the Chinese came here before everyone, jeez now I starting to feel like George bush. "I If I invade every country in the Middle East and kill everyone I bound to take out a few terrorists along the way!"
 
I've often been accused of trying to live up to an idealized version of the 1950s housewife. In some ways that's true. Would I like to live then? No. Would I like to import the societal approval of my choices and some of my attitudes into this time, keeping what I perceive as the best and dumping the worst of both eras? You betcha. But then, isn't that what most people would want?
 
still learning to quote, apparently.

I've often been accused of trying to live up to an idealized version of the 1950s housewife. In some ways that's true. Would I like to live then? No. Would I like to import the societal approval of my choices and some of my attitudes into this time, keeping what I perceive as the best and dumping the worst of both eras? You betcha. But then, isn't that what most people would want?
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As a 23 year-old feminist who hates the fifties on about every level, let me say tha I totally support your right to be a 50's housewife, just like I support my right to have a career, and if I want, never have kids.

It is too bad that the world makes you feel like your choices are not valid. You should get to have whatever life you work for, and if being a mom and wife is your bliss, no one else should judge that.

But I'm not sure what the best of the fifties would be. It's been far more idealized than realized, if you know what I mean. I'd rather import things from the future, a cure for AIDS or the technology for a cheap space elevator to the moon or hydrogen powered cars . . .
 
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sounds like a good deal to me- be what you want, whether that be a career woman or a SAHM. I was about 24 and a professional receptionist-administrative assistant when the realization struck me like a lightning bolt that what I really wanted, deep down, was to be a Soccer mom with a minivan and 2.4 kids. Not sure how I'd get a .4 kid. Perhaps that's what happens when the kids have friends that are always over? Then I'm sorta responsible but they're not mine even though I stand in the parental guidance and safety-providing role
 
Since I live on a farm and have some of these "old-time" skills I find this interesting. I am often told I live an "idyllic life" but those people are never around when I am shoveling manure, getting the snot kicked out of me by a sick animal that I am trying to doctor, up at 3 AM with a kid or lamb that needs help every hour on the hour, or out for hours trying to round up stock because some *&#$% didn't close the gate.

Do you have any idea how much work it is to spin and weave your own clothes? I do, and all I can say is boy am I glad they invented the power loom about 1780. It might be fun and interesting to do as a hobby, but to live when it was a necessity? No thanks.

There are lots of things modern people don't take into consideration. Like, where does the chicken come from for the Sunday dinner? Someone has to go out and hack its head off and pluck and eviscerate it. Most people that lived as short a time ago as 100 years had to handle animals everyday..... sadly many people have lost this skill.

It's pretty freaking hard work to live on a farm. And it's not pretty, or clean.

For me the big thing would be lack of modern drugs. I would not want to even go back 10 years. Not only are there modern drugs for me, but many problems I have with stock are a lot more serious without a few simple modern drugs.
 
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