In the US, the 60s and 70s was a great time to be alive except for getting drafted if you wanted to be that age. They were music years, greatest movies, fun, simpler and enjoyable days—also except for the d&ugs.
What decade or era in human history do you like the most or would have liked to live during?
by Fisherman 15 Replies latest social entertainment
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Disillusioned JW
I prefer the current decade since it has the most freedoms and is the most progressive, has great knowledge most readily available (largely through the internet), there is no draft (in my country, the USA) to worry about, there is no fear (at least to me) of a nuclear war happening (unlike in the 1970s through the mid-1990s), and has the most advanced technology (including for consumers) available. In this decade we can access recordings of music and movies of the the 1950s-1990s, so there is no desire for me to go back to those times to access the music and movies of those times.
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waton
our era, from 1930 on, from 2 billion humans to 8, with science exponential expansion to match, medicine ! Great new music from old Bach to Beatles,
would like to live another decade, and
given the choice, go back to 35-45 CE, to the middle east , and come back, to report and record what really went on. provide a record with recordings not just stories.
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Fisherman
Waton,
Life was hard and short and Caesar was cruel. Love to see Jesus physical appearance, though. DJW:I love the technology and medicine and communication and knowledge and science now ( end is closer too- lol joke) except for tattoos and and the weird stuff but to experience and feel those decades in the US I mentioned would be amazing.
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smiddy3
I was born in 1939 and I`m still here ,and I think those were great years, ( wouldn`t have missed them for the world ) it`s a pity I wont live another 80+ years to see more technological , scientific , medical advances made in those coming years.
Oh well , such is life.
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BluesBrother
I am glad I lived and was young in the 60s , great music and you could have a great time, if you hadn’t been a dub, mind you we still enjoyed ourselves.
In history it would all depend on your social standing and wealth. I love Victorian things but it would have been terrible to be poor
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stan livedeath
here in the UK it was all doing well up to 2019---gone to pieces since.
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TonusOH
I enjoyed the 90s and early aughts, they seem more carefree to me than the present day, though I feel I am much better off now than I was then. I think those years were when political correctness began to run amok and the two political parties in the USA began to form a very clear and aggressive division between them, almost demanding that people choose one side or another instead of focusing on individual issues.
But there was still pushback to those ideas and it felt more free at the time. We were as close to an imperfect balance as we might ever be, now it seems as if we're waiting for one party to overthrow the other and take the country down with it.
Also, I was younger...
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road to nowhere
History is fascinating. Being USA centric, the expansion years, exploring new areas. 1830s, or cowboy era, 1880s. Am I still 75? Or 25. Same wife? Without modern medicine we would both have died or be severe crippled. Of course I pucture myself as the Marlboro man sans cigarette but probably would be a clodhopper.
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Anony Mous
It depends, do I have my current absolute wealth or will I get my current relative wealth, or will I get just a random (or average) livelihood for the era. Also, where will I be located, in my home country, the US or again, ‘the average’ which would be a 3rd world country in Asia or Africa.
JP Morgan, the richest man on earth at the turn of the century was worth just $80M. Ben Franklin, the richest person in his day was worth $350k. If you have an average family home and pay it off, you are going to be wealthier than Benjamin Franklin, many business people today are wealthier than JP Morgan.
People looking for the 70s, the kids in minivans were the wealthy ones, the ones driving around in minivans and protesting, they had wealthy parents that kept them in college, supplied with money and out of jail, the average kid of the time they were drafted had been working full-time in a factory or farm for several years.
People complain about food insecurity if a family has to eat hot dogs more than once a week or live more than 5 miles from a grocery store (literally the definition of ‘hunger’ in the US) or relying on a food bank. In the socialist utopia I grew up in, food insecurity meant having no food from any source, not from the government, not from the store or a food bank, and I’m not that old (at least that’s what I keep telling myself). I would’ve killed for a computer and a phone line, now pocket computers (cell phones) are a basic social service, given away with the welfare check. We were told about places where hunger is worse, Ethiopia and other places had pictures of thousands of children literally starving to death, skin over bones, few people in Africa starve in that way, Africa is now on the forefront of mobile and crypto payments (your average African mother has used Bitcoin on her phone at least once daily). And that’s just 30-40 years of improvements to the ‘average’ life.
Yes, I would love to time travel briefly with my current tools, knowledge and wealth, to many places, but going back in time to re-live any of it, probably not, even emperors died from minor wounds.