What era would you like to live in?

[MaryL]

I'd love to go back to America in the mid 50's. The music, the zeitgeist.

 

[MaryL]

 

[Toro]

This one.

Technology is better. Food is better. Medicine is better. We live longer lives. We work less hard and we have more wealth.

I have no idea why people pine for a past period, other than an idealized nostalgia that never really existed.

 

[the other mike]

Right now, or the year 2112.

 

[progressive hunter]

I'd love to go back to America in the mid 50's. The music, the zeitgeist.

1800-1850 in the rocky mountains,,,

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I would like to live in the 2270s.


Who here wouldn't?

 

[the other mike]

I would like to live in the 2270s.


Who here wouldn't?

If that's the post-war era, and the air is still breathable, I'm in.

 

[Utilitarian]

The 50s seemed nice, although I get the impression the best time to live will probably be in the far future, assuming the human race doesn't destroy itself.

When we get to the point where we're terraforming other planets, we'll have a lot more options for where and how to live.

 

[Utilitarian]

I would like to live in the 2270s.


Who here wouldn't?

If that's the post-war era, and the air is still breathable, I'm in.

If this is a Fallout reference, I concur.

 

[MaryL]

Back in 50's...segregation and "redlining", racism was real. Now? Its a popular neurosis the media pulls out of their hat to push a popular political narrative. I love the 50's aesthetic. Gogi Grant:

 

[the other mike]

If this is a Fallout reference, I concur.

I'm hoping we'll wise up before it comes to that.

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[MaryL]

The 40/50s had movies that movies like "Gentleman's Club" or "Bad day at black rock" or "Giant". I love the Donna reed show, too.

 

[Moonglow]

What ever era it would have to have air conditioning. I grew up when air conditioning was an option...My grandparents said it ruined you to have air conditioning, my Dad had slow blood pressure so if it was one hundred degrees it was just right, the army didn't have air conditioning and neither did my aunts and cousins....We had it at home.

 

[MaryL]

Movies like the "Bridges of Toko-ri", "Strategic air command" . "The Thing", "Giant", "Cat on a hot tin roof"...

 

[Justin Richardson]

I agree wholesomely with Toro on this one! Even though the technology has come a long way, I wouldn't trade it for anything. (Well, maybe for an Aston Martin Coup.)
To me, the internet has been my "entertainment center". Everything I watch and do is online now.

 

[Moonglow]

Movies like the "Bridges or Toko-ri", "Strategic air command" . The Thing", "Giant", "Cat on a hot tin roof"...

They all seem to have a severe lack of frontal nudity unlike the movies from the 1960's.

 

[MaryL]

Movies like the "Bridges or Toko-ri", "Strategic air command" . The Thing", "Giant", "Cat on a hot tin roof"...

They all seem to have a severe lack of frontal nudity unlike the movies from the 1960's.

That's the best part. They didnt use gratuitous profanities and pornography as art either. They had a subtlety about their craft that is lost now, now it's shove it your face blatantly that sort of defies what ART IS.

 

[Moonglow]

Movies like the "Bridges or Toko-ri", "Strategic air command" . The Thing", "Giant", "Cat on a hot tin roof"...

They all seem to have a severe lack of frontal nudity unlike the movies from the 1960's.

That's the best part.

I have seen some stag films from the 1950's though.

 

[Polishprince]

I'd love to go back to America in the mid 50's. The music, the zeitgeist.

I'd love to go back to the 1090's, when Urban II proclaimed the 1st Crusade and manly men from all over Europe gathered to organize against Islamic Terrorism that was arising in the middle east. Must have been a tremendous time to live.