What Era Would You Live in?

[Shu]

If you could live in any time period beside your own, and I do mean any, which would it be and where? It can be a certain decade, it could be a century.

I got to thinking of this because of Inception, and although the movie really had nothing to do with this, I just wanted your opinion on what era you would love the best.

So I'll go first:

I'll pick two for now.

1) The 50's in America - back then this was pretty much our prime out of coming out of the war, and yes the cold war crisis. Though the thing I loved about it was the way folks dressed, and how they carried themselves. Things were simplified a bit more, America was more together than it ever was at that time. The movies and music that were coming out were a bit "boppy" but hey.. it was good style in my opinion.

Drive in movies, drinking out at the bars with folks, good ole fashion football. Ah.. to go back and live then..

2) 200+ BC in Rome. I want to see everything from Gladiators to folks walking around in togas in the consulate, to the emperors, yea yea and to see if the women were attractive back when. I mean I was always curious if as an entire populace if folks were more or less beautiful back then. All we have are paintings and who knows how off folks were. Anyways I'd want to meet the scholars and the painters, and walk the Roman Atriums and see where the first aqueducts were built.

That's all I got for now.

 

[*Serenity*]

Mmk I may have to choose 2 or 3 as well.

1) Ancient Greece (5ish BC to 150ish BC)

Yes, I know there were many issues during this time but Greece back them was just...breathtakingly gorgeous. I love ancient greek mythology and think it would have been so fascinating to be alive during that time. The Greek were admired for their beauty, I'd love to be a part of that.

2) Roarin' 20s in America. Up until the Great Depression of course. The 20s must have been so fascinating, especially for women (gaining the right to vote and all). I LOVE the clothing during this time, and fame began to grow in Hollywood with movies and music. I'd love to go back and see it.

 

[Sullivan0930]

i would never want to go far into the past because i just love technology to much, if anything id rather jump into the future and see whats going on there. But if i had to choose id go back to 1990, the 90s were awesome and i was just a kid. If i could be 18 in 1990 that would be sweet. The music was the best, movies, definitely came out with the best inventions and gadgets, clinton, everything was just going right!

 

[Dee]

Ehh, I'd say either late 1800s/early 1900s.

As a woman, anytime before the 60s, I would either be killed or kill someone considering how stubborn and independent I am, and also considering how much women were (and still can be) treated horribly for the most part compared to how they are now (in several aspects).

If anything, I'd have to agree about going into the future. I think that'd be pretty interesting.

 

[Sir Kenneth]

1970's for me. Most of my favourite bands/artists are from this decade, and it was much cheaper going to gigs back then too. I'd love to see bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Who, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, etc, etc, when were still on top of their game. Maybe I'd even go see a fat Elvis Presley strut his stuff! Just for the hell of it you know.

 

[Ipsen]

i would never want to go far into the past because i just love technology to much, if anything id rather jump into the future and see whats going on there. But if i had to choose id go back to 1990, the 90s were awesome and i was just a kid. If i could be 18 in 1990 that would be sweet. The music was the best, movies, definitely came out with the best inventions and gadgets, clinton, everything was just going right!

I think I agree with this. Knowing of the things I know of now, I think I couldn't really leave them behind. Music and Laptops and so on. I'd be lost without them I think. By music, I mean my modern age music of course. I love all music, but it's the things you couldn't hear that would drive you made.

There's hundreds of events in history I would love to have been a part or experience. Like the whole American West Discovery with Lewis and Clark. To be honest though, I'd liek to find out things we don't know, etc. Who the guy in the TOTU (UK and American) and just everything like that.

I think it'd be cool to see a dinosaur in the flesh so to speak but I think it'd be ill advised too. But they must have looked pretty damn magnificent back in their time on the planet, you know?

I think if I had to choose a time period closer to "now" then I would choose between 60's and 90's just to experience the things that I suppose family and so on had experienced. Though some of the clothes were terrible haha. And the ideas. Mobile Discos...WTF.

 

[Rey]

Ehhh I would probably live during the time of the Roman empire. Maybe ill end up in one of those intense gladiator fights. But of course I would probably die in one of them Or maybe ill be one of those rich emperors Lots of killing and conquering though

 

[Grunt]

I would live some time 500+ years in the future. 90% of people alive now are retards and I like to think that a few hundred years in the future that will be less of an issue.
Obviously I'm just making a blind leap of faith, because the world could be blown up by then, but that's my choice.

 

[Linnaete]

No particular appealing era really pops into my head actually. I'm just too used to this era as is everyone else. I'd be at a huge loss if I'm suddenly evicted from this era and sent to live in a time devoid of the people I know and love as well as technology.

However, I'm rather fascinated with the 1920s though, just not in Britain. Nothing really happened much here in the 1920s as far as I know of, which is why I would take a look at the US and/or Germany. Yes, Germany would have come out of WW1 battered and economically wrecked, but I would love to sample the modernisation in architecture, arts and music during the time of the "Golden Twenties" under Stresemann's Chancellorship. Of course, I wouldn't want to be in the middle of a political street brawl though.

Similarly in the US, there's all the excitement surrounding the advent of mass modernisation (more with the new, less of the old) and commercialism. Even though Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby does criticise the era greatly, he still managed to create a vivid and exciting image of the modern America and its society in the 1920s.

And that's it. I would think twice before stepping into the past as death would be easy and commonplace.

 

[Rasputin]

The 50's, because it was filled to the brink with scum like Joe McCarthy, Fredric Wertham and the John Birch Society. I would have become an activist and attempted to show whatever evidence I could from the future of the damage they would inevitably cause to American culture. I'd also try to convince them that their music was horrible and covering themselves with hairspray did not make themselves look attractive.

Ancient Greece would be a lot of fun, if simply to meet the great legendary philosophers and sculptors. Wouldn't have liked the disease or lack of plumbing though.

 

[Amizon]

Probably the 1990s since some of my favourite music originates from there. I may have lived it during my childhood, but I loved the world then. You could just do about anything without having to worry too much.

 

[inlovewiththe44]

I would love to be in the 1990s again. The economy was decent, the music was (in my opinion) the greatest, and the TV shows were awesome too. It was a fun time to live in.

 

[chronotrigger]

This one is a tough question for me because I would love to mix and match parts of different eras because I have noticed that I don't quite fit into any one era. I guess if I really wanted to be a part of my favorite musical/artsy/movie type era, I would like to be thrown back to the 70's or 80's. Most of my favorite entertainment in the arts section came from the 50's through the 80's. I never got too into the newer stuff that way (90's and beyond seems like newer stuff to me).

If I look at technology, I wouldn't want to go anywhere. I like where technology is right now. I am happy that we have it readily available nearly everywhere we go at a seconds notice, but that it hasn't become the only way to do anything. I am somewhat old-fashioned and I still enjoy going to see people rather than phone calls, sometimes the occasional letter rather than email, etc. I also love that I can call when I can't go somewhere or get any information needed with the use of a computer. Also, lest we forget, video games are awesome and I would rather not live without them.

Looking at medical advances, I would rather be farther in the future in hopes that they have found a cure for epilepsy as I have that and it is rather irritating having to take pills everyday to not become a retarded fish flopping around on the ground (a.k.a. a seizure). It would also be nice to know that I could get better jobs because of the lack of epilepsy. Medical advances are nice.

Then, thinking about my own personality and manners, I would rather be in the renaissance era where manners were still widely known and accepted rather than the rudeness of the last century. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but I just hate it when people don't even have the common courtesy to hold the door open for someone or to say thank you. I don't think all forms of manners are good, but it would be nice to have people say thank you more often and do something nice just because.

I guess I will just have to stick with the common era since I wouldn't quite fit into any era very well. Also because there is no way to time-travel yet (I am working on it as we speak, but it's not going well). Either way, it would be nice to check out different eras to see if they worked out better.

 

[The Witch]

The 40s to the 50s...or the renaissance.

40s and 50s because it was such a innocent and beautiful time. The clothes were gorgeous!

The Renaissance because I love balloon sleeved dresses and it was so romantic <33

 

[Death's Head]

Two eras appeal to me the most...

1800 years ago in China, after the fall of the Han Dynasty and during the period of the Three Kingdoms (I'm a fan of the novella 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' and the Dynasty Warriors games). Don't know which Kingdom I'd serve under though... Wei or Shu. Wouldn't serve in Wu... bunch of sissy boys there >.<

Second era... feudal Japan, Tokugawa/Oda era. Probably just be a Ronin... Not sure if I'd want to join the Demon King (Oda Nobunaga) though.

 

[Claire]

The 2 decades that I would wanna live in would be 1- the 70's. Oh how I loved the cars that were around in this era. And I loved the music that was in this era as well. Dazed and Confused just makes me wish I was born earlier than 89. And no btw not for the drugs lol. I dont smoke or drink.

And for 2- 650 BC in Sparta. I would love to be a Spartan Warrior and fight alongside all of them warriors. That style of warfare is my favorite, and anything dealing with history in general interests me alot.

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Anytime in history where there was war on that did not involve a gun!

A specific time though would be the year 1000 BC at the time of the signing of the Magna Carta(not to mention the all time winner of medievil law "Prima Nocta" FTW) It would have great, the battles, the glory, fighting under heraldry and Ridding Middle-Earth of Sauron........

But no TV or clean toilets, or music, that I would like anyway.

Do we choose 2 Eras?

Well the 2nd would be 5000 years ago during the first Dynasty of Egypt and the building of the Pyramids.......fighting the Hititties(?) and battling Carthage.......With Copper!

 

[KeyranSolo]

I was alive in the 90's but i'd like to be 18-20 in around 1990 mainly because I could live my favourite era of music - 90s grunge and brit pop, that would be the best thing ever.

 

[Kroshanks]

Maybe I'd like to trade in my life for one around the 1650s. That way, even as a kid I could get a decent job as a sailor. Sure, hygiene wasn't all that great and there was the risk of being skewered into slush by pirates, but either way, I think it still beats what I'm doing now, yeah?

What can I say? I'm a workaholic/alcoholic.