Anybody wished they lived in early 20th century? And modern times.

[Lithophila 291]

Maybe some have grandfathers or grandmothers who lived in that period. But what i imagine

- No internet to affect you. Your type of social stuff happend around your local area, churches, people, neighbors etc.

- Working cap

- State didn't take care of you as much as they do now (Depending if socialism is strong depending on what type of western world you live in)

- Hard work and much more loner type of lively hood. No place place of massive informaton like internet to write and ask stuff, usually depending on books, guts and hard work to get anywhere in life.

 

 

I think life or technology today have stiffened that aspect of ideological factor of achieving stuff. And are more or less a factor. Eat, read, study, work and die. Or it just might be me who is getting older. But even then i still think world wide web has changed our way of interacting and made us more slave to that form of communication. The bad factors exists like YouTube, Omegle to be slaves to that. Some may argue that any type of addiction is bad. And i agree if its harmful. But lets compare one thing parents were so hyped out in the 90s. Video games, now look at them now. They sit on facebook... and yet they complained that kids are wasting their lives on games . Its so ironic. But i feel games atleast has a purpose for entertainment in the same way as movies, but you don't base yourself around it to socialize around it. Now internet places like facebook does more or less in terms of a bubble where i dont feel you progress much on the intimate interactive level. Which for some reason many find comfortable with. But its also sites that has bad psychological effects... like can sites pervert or mess your evolutionary progress of actually development?. That's the things i am pessimistic about when i think of certain sites that people can use like Omegle. I mean in terms of it psychologically twists you in a certain way. And i don't just mean it in terms of nudity in terms of sex offenders, but in meaning of simply wasting time aswell. I consider internet useful as a tool. But for others its a resource for wasting time on... well bad form of entertainment. Clickbaits on Youtube. Subjectiveness is one thing, but the problem is these contents are usually free user uploads and dont have content quality ideals. Which is why most uploads tends to be a way of getting easy cash. And hense most are garbage. I tend to believe most people use youtube to just kinda get music from artists or movie clips or videos from games they like that they might wanna buy. But its also the progress that some maybe like to waste time watching people play games

 

So yeah... slaves to a machine one can say.

 

Either way. Whatcha think?

Edited December 10, 2015 by Lithophila

[Envy 6,202]

Um... No thanks. I'll stay right here. I like having my civil rights, and I like other groups having their civil rights as well - to live in an era where the Jim Crow laws were still in effect, I'd be so sickened.

 

I have no use for any attempt of romanticizing of that era. Being from that time benefits only a certain group of people of privilege. It's no shock whatsoever when you see them pining for it again.

[Chara 1,565]

I 100% understand what you are talking about but there was way too many terrible events (WW1, WW2,The Cold War, segregation  etc) I would not want to be effected by any of those no matter the circumstances so I would choose maybe the late 1900's or 2000's.

Edited December 10, 2015 by Zach

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I would prefer late 20th century, you know like the 60s to 70s even up to the 90s. Though it definitely did have some charm to it, let's just say the charm isn't enough. Look I love "simpler" times but it isn't enough so I'd rather in the 1990s when the Japanese sports car era was alive and well.

Personally I plan on one day living all alone for a year in the wild, just me and a rifle surviving.

[Bogrick Grey Mane 2,594]

Being an elder pony, I was born way back in 65, I would have no desire to return to that era at all, or to an earlier one either. Yes times were harder, if you wanted something doing you did it yourself, and I'm still that way inclined now. Growing up in the mid 20th century, without internet and video games meant that you had to use you imagination allot more, and hence I find people from my era much more creative than today's generation. I was there for the birth of the internet and watched it mature into the system we have now. I watched as technology developed and spent most of my life working on what was back then cutting edge technology, hell we didn't even have PC's back then,transistors were a new invention and silicon chips just hadn't even been dreamed of.

So yes I look back nostalgically at the old days, but hell no do I want to go back to them. Life is so much easier today,slightly more complicated, but easier   

[Seraph Sun 56]

Yeah, um... no. Dying at 50 and the rampant racism and wars and stuff. No thank you.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,803]

- State didn't take care of you as much as they do now (Depending if socialism is strong depending on what type of western world you live in

I get disability and I would be pretty screwed if I didn't, for multiple reasons, so I am thankful that the state actually does this now. 

 

I would never want to live in that time. While one could say that things were better because they were simple or whatever, that was also a time of rampant racism and sexism, remember, women and African Americans still did not have many rights then. Then there is the disease factor since medicine was nowhere near as advanced. Consider me perfectly fine in the modern world. 

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Yeah I'm black so uh, living in any time before the 1970s would not be ideal for me.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

I'd rather have lived in the early 14th century, personally.

 

However, my grandparents and great-grandparents living in England as tea merchants were doing all right.

[Pinkiest Pie 405]

Yeah I'm black so uh, living in any time before the 1970s would not be ideal for me.

Actually, yeah, before the white settlers found out there is black people. Was actually a long time.. It generally went until the slave trade started, anytime after about 1560 would not be fine until 198/70's..

 

Now on to my opinion. I myself would stay in the modern world. We have many technical advantages and we are able to solve things like diseases AND there is alot less stuff like racism, sexism, etc. I am perfectly fine that life is how it is now..

 

It also wouldn't be any better. Because as I stated above, people did not have cures for many serious diseases that could kill you then. Thankfully we do now.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

The 50s looked like an interesting time with all the vintage stuff, but it was during the time when white people thought they were superior, and being partially Mexican in Arizona would lead to a hellish life.

[hfiosdhvsdovsdio 86]

I'm good where I am because at least in the modern world I don't have to worry as much about racism and sexism and having diseases like the flu being more preventable and curable and not have to worry about catching Smallpox and Spanish Flu and having more wars than necessary and living with the fear the USSR might nuke us.

 

Yeah i'd rather not......

[Lithophila 291]

Yeah I'm black so uh, living in any time before the 1970s would not be ideal for me.

I can sympathize. Although i still believe universial racism exists. Its just that in western world atleast this was more of a problem back then. Martin Luther King was a great speaker for sure. Although i bet there probably is some slight issues yet, not only here but around the world too of ethnic hatred, people having the idea of supremacy rather than unity, but yeah

 

Actually, yeah, before the white settlers found out there is black people. Was actually a long time.. It generally went until the slave trade started, anytime after about 1560 would not be fine until 198/70's..

And the fact that you'd likely die to diseases or lack of knowledge would be easy way to die in the old days, when religions, superstitions and stuff was more dominant in daily life. I don't know if one would prefer it, but i guess one could say its better than life of slavery if i had to choose atleast.

 

Although the arab slave trade was in north africa i believe, who owned slave trades, which was bought by europeans who imported them to america. And yeah...a couple of 100 years. History is bleeping dark more or less.

Edited December 10, 2015 by Lithophila

[Invincible 2,092]

The early 20th century wasn't a great time to live in for most people, just saying. 

[redshell 195]

How early? 1900-1913 maybe, 1914-1920 no

[Tonyan 122]

Sorry but, so far our society has evolved very much for the good, as for the bad. But it was the same back then. It may have looked fun and cozy back then, but I really don't want to suffer the world war 1 and 2 that happened, which were absolutely atrocious. Right now, everything is much more peaceful if you look at the statistics, and our technology right now is much more practical and useful than what they had back then.

 

So I'm staying here.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

The world didn't really become a nice place to live until around 1946, following the end of the war. And even then, only in the US and Britain. Don't get me wrong, it'd be cool to experience the history of the early 20th century, but the living conditions were harsh at best.

[Anneal 2,197]

I would prefer late 20th century, you know like the 60s to 70s even up to the 90s. Though it definitely did have some charm to it, let's just say the charm isn't enough. Look I love "simpler" times but it isn't enough so I'd rather in the 1990s when the Japanese sports car era was alive and well.

Personally I plan on one day living all alone for a year in the wild, just me and a rifle surviving.

Unfortunately even the late 20th century isn't that pleasant economically and politically. In the 1970s, you have an awful oil embargo, the Iran hostage crisis, Boston bussing riots, and the formation of the Rust Belt (deindustrialization of the Great Lakes and Northern U.S., which ruined the economy of the area. Think Detroit.), and Watergate. People in the 70s really distrusted government and were very pessimistic, a lot more than we are today, and often looked to religion to solve their problems - that's how tele-evangelism started, in fact. Voter turnout at this time was also the lowest in history in terms of eligible voters.

 

On the other hand, the 70s was also the Women's Rights Revolution...and the Sexual Revolution. Women got tired of being forced to secondary jobs and inferior pay and were able to gain more educational and occupational rights. Contraception became more popular as this time...along with pornography. (Let's not get into it too much.)

 

There was also the rise of environmentalism. Technically the 60s was when the government started going environmentalist, and the early 20th century is when Roosevelt tried to do something similar to it. Unfortunately it got slowly reversed with Three Mile Island (and Love Canal again showed the severity of pollution), which was used by conservatives as an excuse that the environmentalist movement was useless.

 

And honestly the 80s were pretty bad. The Age of Conservatism saw some reversals of certain bills in the Liberal Era before, and there was the Iran-Contraband scandal and Persian Gulf War. Oh, and video games took a big crash, so early gaming companies ended up advertising games as boys-only to regain profit (this is where the Gamers vs. Feminists come in).

 

That's just the United States. Basically only East Asian countries prospered in the late 20th.

[cmarston1 5,959]

Nope not really.  I am perfectly fine with the world that is going on right now.

[Mr F 1,522]

No. Norway was close to a third world country untill the 1970s.

The majority of the population was exstremely antisemittic (About as bad as nazi-germany), racist and uneducated. The country was for a long period of time a frozen wasteland of nothing-good-ness. Only after ww2 the country became somewhat industrialized and it did not see much further growth before the 70s and 80s. (The start of the oil era)

I am really happy I live in the 2000s. Its simply a better time period in most if not all ways.

The last 50 years has moved this country from ashes to riches, so no one is looking back.

Edited December 10, 2015 by Mr. Fluffles

[Lithophila 291]

No. Norway was close to a third world country untill the 1970s.

Well most countries back then wasn't paradise though. Even in USA who was luxurious new model of a futuristic time period at the time, but in 1929 suffered in terms of wall street crash, the great depression as one would call it. I just believe its mostly thanks to technology, inventions etc that we have it easier and better today than before, when hard work and manpower was much more required. Economic income is simply just a way of developing and importing easier to a poverty struck country. Also its not only due to economic that one is labeled 3rd world country, take Saudi Arabia for example, its hugely theocratic, having an absolute monarchy as a system of rule, yet money is the least of its problem.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Lithophila

[Gearbox10mm 794]

My grandfather was born in 1906 and died at 93. That was back in 1999. Think about living over that time period. In his lifetime he witnessed everything from the invention of the modern airplaine and the proliferation of the automobile to men walking on the moon and the birth of the internet. It truly was an amazing snapshot in human history.

 

When he was born they didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing. He didn't get to enjoy those simple convienences, that we take for granted everyday, until he was already middle aged and had started a family. To say that times were hard back then is an understatment. You had to be tough to survive, especially if you were poor country folk like we were.

 

Would I go back to that time to live? Not no, but hell no! I know I couln't hack it and I doubt there are many today that could. We've grown much too soft. All of our wonderful modern tecnology is both a blessing and a curse.         

[EpicEnergy 23,224]

I'd rather stay in the present, with technology.

[Dreambiscuit 10,173]

If I had the opportunity to go back and live in the early 20^th century, I’d be there so fast my bloomers would have to catch the next time machine on the tarmac. I don’t care if the work weeks were longer; it was worth it! The lack of technology is a bonus more than a detriment. And the social state of things was vastly preferable to the sickness permeating the modern world. Whatever drawbacks there may have been, they can’t even come close to what’s wrong with the present age. 

[RDDash 19,206]

Um, maybe.  With a romanticized version of prohibition era and the mafia. But before the global depression because that's not what anyone thinks about when they are saying they want to live in the beginning of 20th century.

Edited June 14, 2020 by RDDash