Are you jealous of any other time periods for what they had or are you content with what the world is today? For me, there is no day or time period better than this modern era. When I hear people talk about how the past was so much more simple and "better" I just cannot imagine why. Right now is the best time to be alive!
hmmm maybe right after world war 2 finished ? now certainly isnt the best time to live, all this new technology may make our lives more convienent but it rots the mind. kids ego tripping out on facebook and twitter all day and generally paranoid society. even not long ago when i was a kid id be out playing in the streets and meet random other kids and go on adventures. nowadays i never see kids playing on the streets. no one talks to there neighbours, theres a big sense of detatchment compared to earlier societies but if you go to far back people are probably to backwards to stand - power crazy christians, slave owners etc.! so yea right after world war 2
I mean it had everything, and people were nicer to each other then, they truely were the greatest generation.
Not to mention a world war and a holocaust and the first time humanityused atomic weapons. Those were the days.
exactly, but those times made people value what they had more and respect and help one another, these days too many people have no respect for one another or life and winge about the slightest problem and wont even work.
Not to mention a world war and a holocaust and the first time humanityused atomic weapons. Those were the days.
sonofsmeagle
exactly, but those times made people value what they had more and respect and help one another, these days too many people have no respect for one anotheror life and winge about the slightest problem and wont even work.
Humanity tried to wipe out an entire group of people and we dropped atomic bombs on civilian cities. These facts conflict with your above reasoning.
Its common practive to look back and think 'things were better back then' however its not usually the case. Things get pregressively better as time goes by but its difficult to see.
[QUOTE="Overlord93"]The future. Since thats not an option I'll say the present. There was no internet before, no video games. sheesh, how could I survive? well since u wouldnt know about those things then they wouldnt bother you i had awesome fun when all i knew were board games and fake wrestling my friends
^Yes, but knowing the things you and the world know now, would you still prefer an older time period?ZumaJones07
Yes, the 40-50's, in America. Ya know living the American dream, earning big with my future knowledge, while telling my wife not to smoke that poison and put lead on her face.
^Yes, but knowing the things you and the world know now, would you still prefer an older time period?ZumaJones07
if i knew all the stuff i know now yes because i wouldnt mind not having internet etc that much and id know stuff from the future to let me get ahead easier (in general, not stupid things like picking the lotto numbers)
I'm extremely happy with all the technology we have in today's world.
But if I would want to live in a different time then it would be the time of the vikings. I would love to experience the fear of sheild wall and becoming War Lord (Doubt I would though). But that would be cool
The people of the 1930s to the 1970s were by far the greatest generation that ever lived. I mean, c'mon, who else can lay claim to mass racism and sexism, wars that killed millions of people and complaining about how their descendants are all so much worse than they are?
The people of the 1930s to the 1970s were by far the greatest generation that ever lived. I mean, c'mon, who else can lay claim to mass racism and sexism, wars that killed millions of people and complaining about how their descendants are all so much worse than they are?
Barbariser
i cannot think of a good thing to say about the baby boomers, they have caused the vast majority of our current problems and are responsible for all net policies and regulations, lets not even get to the nanny state, i have nothing against the lost generation(WW1) or the greatest generation(ww2).
40s or 50s. I don't know why everyone seems to think they were all racist/sexist and whatever. My grandparents weren't/aren't that way, neither are my parents (and both lived in diverse neighborhoods). Maybe it was that way in the south, but I would've wanted to live in the norhtheast...
[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]yeah, i can't see how the answer to this question is never the present.. assuming you're not living in a post-apocalyptic zombie-fest.surrealnumber5
tomorrow for the win, today sucks, last nights sleep sucked, but tomorrow will be awesome well, yes. but lacking a poll option for tomorrow i'll have to go with today.
[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]yeah, i can't see how the answer to this question is never the present.. assuming you're not living in a post-apocalyptic zombie-fest.comp_atkins
tomorrow for the win, today sucks, last nights sleep sucked, but tomorrow will be awesome well, yes. but lacking a poll option for tomorrow i'll have to go with today. conformist pig :P
I like the technology aspect of the modern world, but I love the 40's through the 60's. I'm a huge fan of noir films and literature, and the end of the sixties would be completely epic. I could see Jimi Hendrix play live. That would be the best.
In 1959 most American households had a TV, so those people now who are 50-55 are old but have never known life without gadgets and probably will die before the world ends.
I mean it had everything, and people were nicer to each other then, they truely were the greatest generation.
Nice unless you were Japanese or Jewish........ What? If anything the Japanese where the perpetrators. You even know what they did to the Chinese? Not the US citizens who were put in internment camps by the "greatest generation".......
[QUOTE="charlesdarwin55"][QUOTE="Mafiree"] Nice unless you were Japanese or Jewish........Mafiree
What? If anything the Japanese where the perpetrators. You even know what they did to the Chinese? Not the US citizens who were put in internment camps by the "greatest generation"....... Yeah but Japan did much worse things to the Chinese than putting them in internment camp. You never talk about the Chinese but that was almost another holocaust in itself.
[QUOTE="Mafiree"][QUOTE="charlesdarwin55"] What? If anything the Japanese where the perpetrators. You even know what they did to the Chinese?charlesdarwin55
Not the US citizens who were put in internment camps by the "greatest generation"....... Yeah but Japan did much worse things to the Chinese than putting them in internment camp. You never talk about the Chinese but that was almost another holocaust in itself. I don't see how that disputes my claim against the 1930s and 1950s being the greatest generation then. That would only strengthen it.
[QUOTE="charlesdarwin55"][QUOTE="Mafiree"] Not the US citizens who were put in internment camps by the "greatest generation".......Mafiree
Yeah but Japan did much worse things to the Chinese than putting them in internment camp. You never talk about the Chinese but that was almost another holocaust in itself. I don't see how that disputes my claim against the 1930s and 1950s being the greatest generation then. That would only strengthen it. You saying 1930s to 1950s was the greatest generation?? Or not??
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