Born in the wrong century

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i was born at the right time. video games as a medium started to grow, westren cartoons were at thier peak, the internet become more open to the public Before social media came out and got alot of friends that i still talk to this day who where born at the same year. sure i wont get my waifu robutt but i can live with that.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
i was born at the right time. video games as a medium started to grow, westren cartoons were at thier peak, the internet become more open to the public Before social media came out and got alot of friends that i still talk to this day who where born at the same year. sure i wont get my waifu robutt but i can live with that.
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That's pretty cool I guess.
 
I think I get where the OP is coming from & while we all know it's easy to romanticize the past, it's interesting to look back to see how different the lives of working people have become.

If we look back to Victorian times, I think the sense of community was far stronger than today, possibly because we were more homogeneous, we dressed pretty much the same, were expected to attend church every Sunday & we probably had far greater social skills than today. Mainly because in our free time, we'd have to entertain ourselves with storytelling, music & singing, games involving more than just one person, doing craft work by hand or socialising in a pub. All things that are far less common or popular today.

On the downside, if I had been a Victorian, I'd probably be dead by now as I'm middle aged but at least I wouldn't have been concerned about some religious nutter blowing me up in the street & while life will have been exceptionally hard for some children, at least they wouldn't be committing suicide over being bullied on Facebook & I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be stabbing each other to death over drugs or even just being disrespected. In fact, there'd be no 'War on Drugs' because we could buy heroin, cocaine & many other drugs from a pharmacy, so no need for street dealers.

There's no question that life in the past would have been physically harder but as long as we had a job & some sort of home, even if we shared it with many other people, I think life in general might have been far simpler & less stressful than today. There were far fewer bills to worry about without electricity & running water, no credit card bills, no motoring costs & a rural lifestyle would have given many of us the opportunity to be far more self sufficient by keeping animals on common land, or a pig & chickens at home, we'd grow our own veg & probably be able to barter goods & services with our neighbours, who we'd most likely all know by name & probably work alongside with too, as most people worked locally back then. No commuting hell, no motorways scaring the countryside, no Islam, no LGBT+ bollocks, no SJW's = bliss.
 
I do feel like I was born in the wrong century.
I'd like to be born in the year 50,000. Why? Because it'd be interesting no matter what.
 
The more I grow from video games and the like, the more I'd love to experience my parents' generation. I've heard so many stories of my hometown being an absolute party with people and youth running around all day, and the now-restaurant disco having bouncers throw people into the river for wearing leather (as protection for motorcycles).

But then again, the town would be half the size and boredom twice as lethal. At least I just waste away at home now instead of out in the cold, and I doubt I'd be more social from my environment. Even land whales get partners these days, so not like it was any easier back then, you were just more exposed to people because they didn't sit at home. But that also meant you only got to talk shallowly and not the depths IM'ing allows.

Overall, no. Maybe 2-3 years earlier? Experience WoW and CS 1.6 LANs at an age I could fathom and enjoy them.
 
My favourite era is the first half of the 20th century, especially the World Wars and the Interwar time. It was when good and evil fought each other... mostly...
 
Babyspackle said:
You think every person in the 1860s owned a full tailored suit? I'm sure you imagine they had 12 - 20 full sets of clothes like you do now, just all hand made to last and better than yours. Violent crime not at levels completely horrifiying by todays standards. Life suure must have been worth alot more than it is today right?

Rose colored glasses bud.
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I failed to mention when I replied previously: if you look at photos of anybody from at least the 1950s and earlier, you will notice that everybody, even the poorest of the poor, wear suits in public. The most casual it seems to get, by our standards, would be something like overalls with a shirt.

Now, they still had class distinctions in clothes (good suits versus bad suits), and the poor especially would have had very small wardrobes that didn't get laundered often, but they still went about their work wearing what would like Sunday dress now. In fact, I have a theory that people spent more on clothes back then simply because they didn't have as many alternative products to invest in.

They didn't have jeans and T-shirts, of course, so it's not fair to say they didn't slop around in that, but there was a level of quality to their dress. Similarly, as I mentioned with Civil War letters, even most of the uneducated spoke and wrote with much better grammar and vocabulary than most educated people nowadays. The English language hadn't been brutalized.

Rancid Flid said:
I think I get where the OP is coming from & while we all know it's easy to romanticize the past, it's interesting to look back to see how different the lives of working people have become.

If we look back to Victorian times, I think the sense of community was far stronger than today, possibly because we were more homogeneous, we dressed pretty much the same, were expected to attend church every Sunday & we probably had far greater social skills than today. Mainly because in our free time, we'd have to entertain ourselves with storytelling, music & singing, games involving more than just one person, doing craft work by hand or socialising in a pub. All things that are far less common or popular today.

On the downside, if I had been a Victorian, I'd probably be dead by now as I'm middle aged but at least I wouldn't have been concerned about some religious nutter blowing me up in the street & while life will have been exceptionally hard for some children, at least they wouldn't be committing suicide over being bullied on Facebook & I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be stabbing each other to death over drugs or even just being disrespected. In fact, there'd be no 'War on Drugs' because we could buy heroin, cocaine & many other drugs from a pharmacy, so no need for street dealers.

There's no question that life in the past would have been physically harder but as long as we had a job & some sort of home, even if we shared it with many other people, I think life in general might have been far simpler & less stressful than today. There were far fewer bills to worry about without electricity & running water, no credit card bills, no motoring costs & a rural lifestyle would have given many of us the opportunity to be far more self sufficient by keeping animals on common land, or a pig & chickens at home, we'd grow our own veg & probably be able to barter goods & services with our neighbours, who we'd most likely all know by name & probably work alongside with too, as most people worked locally back then. No commuting hell, no motorways scaring the countryside, no Islam, no LGBT+ bollocks, no SJW's = bliss.
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People didn't die as young as the life expectancies imply, or perhaps it may be fair to say that while disease and injury struck people down frequently, it was spread out over a very wide distribution. Old people (in the sense of 80s and 90s) were not at all uncommon, though of course not as common as now. For most of history it's just a somewhat higher rate of mortality, very high childhood mortality, and pulses of mass death from famine/plague/war.

I wouldn't want the farming life. I don't think that it's simpler at all. The farmer pretty much lives in constant anxiety over factors he can't control, like the rain and the blight. Providing for himself against nature is way more difficult than just showing up to a 9-to-5 and doing it. I don't envy the material conditions of the past. I envy the day-to-day culture, what you might call village life.

Cactus Wings said:
The more I grow from video games and the like, the more I'd love to experience my parents' generation. I've heard so many stories of my hometown being an absolute party with people and youth running around all day, and the now-restaurant disco having bouncers throw people into the river for wearing leather (as protection for motorcycles).

But then again, the town would be half the size and boredom twice as lethal. At least I just waste away at home now instead of out in the cold, and I doubt I'd be more social from my environment. Even land whales get partners these days, so not like it was any easier back then, you were just more exposed to people because they didn't sit at home. But that also meant you only got to talk shallowly and not the depths IM'ing allows.

Overall, no. Maybe 2-3 years earlier? Experience WoW and CS 1.6 LANs at an age I could fathom and enjoy them.
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Going off of your mentioning of the town having a party atmosphere, communities used to have community activities way more often. Block parties and the like. Men also had their "secret" societies (glorified clubs) and women had their things. By the modern day, it's turned to where most people rarely sit on their own porch, much less interact with their neighbors.
 
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At the risk of sounding vain, I like to think that I was born before my time, not after it. I look forward to the developments of the future, and I often find myself wishing that humanity were much better at letting go of it's past. When I look around at the world today, I see a world that is still largely consumed by tribalism, superstition, prejudice, and inequity. I yearn for a future where humanity can advance beyond that.
 
Do any of you ever feel like you relate better to people from the past than people now?
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Are you calling me OLD, Motherfucker?

Foltest said:
Sometimes yes, but then i realize that I would be a bigger sperg back in those days then today.
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And you might have gotten an icepick up your eye socket.

Embrace Faggotry while you can.
 
Hellbound Hellhound said:
At the risk of sounding vain, I like to think that I was born before my time, not after it. I look forward to the developments of the future, and I often find myself wishing that humanity were much better at letting go of it's past. When I look around at the world today, I see a world that is still largely consumed by tribalism, superstition, prejudice, and inequity. I yearn for a future where humanity can advance beyond that.
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Fuck off zoomer.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Similarly, as I mentioned with Civil War letters, even most of the uneducated spoke and wrote with much better grammar and vocabulary than most educated people nowadays. The English language hadn't been brutalized.
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In regards to this point, I think it has much to do with the fact that in the old times, the American people's education gave heavy focus to the art of rhetoric and grammar. Nowadays unless the student goes out of their way to sign up for debate club or whatever, they are just taught the rudiments of literacy and communication. In the old times, they students cut their teeth on the Classical Greek and Latin, so they really understood precisely how 1-2 more complex languages worked by the time they came to learning the English grammar. These days, they often don't teach a whole lot of grammar in the schools, just enough so that the students can speak/write without egregious errors, but often not well enough that they can speak/write effectively and efficiently.

In reading the American Civil War histories, I'm continually impressed at how the people could extemporaneously speak at length and with great eloquence when they were called upon to give a few simple remarks or a short speech to please a crowd or inspire some soldiers. Even the most average small-town lawyer from Bumblefuck, Kansas or wherever could summon up an impressive feat of oratory with no preparation and under difficult wartime circumstances.

Also, in the old times, I get the feeling that they didn't waste much educational resources on dumb children, who were instead simply sent on to learn a trade, so the school classes were not held back by dummies and they could teach at a higher and accelerated level after weeding out the less clever pupils.
 
Nah, if we were born 100 years ago we'd have to ride our horses fifteen miles through rain and muck to discuss what's to be done about the McCabe's son that insists he's a female horse. Being able to laugh at lolcows from afar is much more convenient.
 
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I sometimes wish I had been born earlier so I could better enjoy hair metal and the golden age of arcades.
 
I want to live in whichever century the Lord of The Rings was

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I feel like I was born a few hundred years too early. I could still check out all this shit, but I could kill people with lasers after I ripped out my birthchip.
 
No, the past was shit, that’s why we changed things. “Oh how wonderful it is to shit in a hole, wipe with an oyster shell and die aged 20 from toothache!”
 
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