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Choose an era :)

Green Bean

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(I put this in homeless as i didn't know where to place it).

If you could go back in time to any period in historical times or any past time in television history, where would it be?
(Hope that made sense)

I'd want to be dropped right into Quincy times. Flared trousers, USA in the 70s.
 
Moved From Homeless.

OP this thread would be great posted in several sections. The Lounge would get some great results as would EADD and the local chat sections.

(I'm going to copy your thread into the EADD section to see what discussion it will raise)

mid 60's just for the vibe :)


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My answer would be contingent on a number of variables; different sections of history appeal more to me in some locations, or for some social milieus, or for different defining characteristics, etc., than they do in others.

New York City would have been a blast to experience around 1950-1980. But Bangladesh? Not so much.

If I limit my answer to consider only eras that existed since modern times (which I define as c. 1600 CE—present):

1.) US and West Europe: circa 1960-1980 CE, before everything lost its edge and became commericialised and kitschy.

2.) Europe: around the time of the Enlightenment.

3.) Europe: around the time of the Renaissance.

4.) Americas: during the time of widespread exploration, when everything was an unmolested and novel frontier, just waiting for the intrepid pathfinder or meticulous cartographer with enough serendipity to find it and enough tenacity to trek it.

5.) US and Europe: during the time when one didn't require more than intelligence to be a well-known and well-paid intellectual (such as an author, scientist, mathematician) and when being a successful polymath or adept autodidact was not only possible and economically viable, but laudable.

But modernity kind of sucks—some of its periods suck less than others, but none of them don't suck. I'd much prefer antiquity to any other younger epoch. If I could have both biological immortality and the freedom to travel and explore the world as it existed between the advent of written language (circa 4,000 BCE) and before the terminus of Pax Romana (circa 200 CE), I'd abandon modernity without hesitation for an infinite existence in ancient times.
 
Now I think on it, perhaps sixties UK might be worth a look too. Could be interesting.
 
How about early 20th century America before the Harrison act was passed?
 
I'd go back to the 90s where tech was just starting to take off, right before the entire cultural landscape was decimated by runamok commercialism.
 
I'd go back to the 90s where tech was just starting to take off, right before the entire cultural landscape was decimated by runamok commercialism.
I hear you but maybe a little farther back political correctness started rearing it's ugly head then and now it's to the point everything is grey and nothing is black and white(not talking specifically about race).
 
How long do I have to stay in the past? Can I come back to the present or am I stuck there? If so, for how long?
 
90's for me, a somewhat more optimistic and simple time is what i imagine, but with a level of excitement as if it was a mini 60's rave scene where love could change the world.
 
90's for me, a somewhat more optimistic and simple time is what i imagine, but with a level of excitement as if it was a mini 60's rave scene where love could change the world.

I thought that as well. But how depressing it would be to live within an era of unjustified optimism.

I mean, unless one has absolute ignorance of what insignificance is their present and what awaits them in their future, the 90s would just be an utterly depressing decade.
 
i prefer to think of it not as romanticizing past eras but rather thinking about what better concepts of those times could be imported to the current era and reintroduced to society.
 
i prefer to think of it not as romanticizing past eras but rather thinking about what better concepts of those times could be imported to the current era and reintroduced to society.

Amazingly, I never considered that. It's an interesting perspective.
 
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