Discussion If you could live in any place in the world, at any point in history, where would you choose?

[bambie200]

For me it's got to be like 12,000 years ago in America. I wanna see a wooly mammoth hahaha

 

[Slow_Farewell]

Before the microsoft, apple & google boom.

 

[hikikomorizombie]

switzerland, sososo picturesque & perfect, & i've always heard the ppl are so nice. would wanna live out my life there, so 21 years ago

 

[empty sighs]

79 AD right before the destruction of Pompeii.

 

[sserafim]

I hate being human so I wouldn't want to be a person at any point in human history. Instead, I would rather be a well-loved and well-fed housecat (still in the 21st century). That's the ultimate win at life imo. Being a (solitary) apex predator sounds pretty cool too (tiger, etc).

 

[-Link-]

I hate being human so I wouldn't want to be a person at any point in human history.

I gotta say this as well, at this point. I have no interest in being human now or at any time in history.

Being a (solitary) apex predator sounds pretty cool too (tiger, etc).

This would be OK, except for the part of having to... well, umm... eat... things...

I'll go with a rhinoceros instead. Those solitary apex predators are going to have to socialize and bring some friends if they want to make a meal out of me.

 

[bambie200]

This would be OK, except for the part of having to... well, umm... eat... things...

Be a black bear and eat blueberries and Saskatoon berries all day!! And then sleep all winter haha being a bear would rock

Before the microsoft, apple & google boom.

Would you want to be born before so you could invest in them right off the start and make bank? Or do you not want to be alive at the same time as them at all?

 

[-Link-]

Be a black bear and eat blueberries and Saskatoon berries all day!! And then sleep all winter haha being a bear would rock

I'll stick with the rhinoceros.

You can be the black bear, I'll be the rhino, we'll go to 12,000 BC, find a wooly mammoth, and we'll all hang out together eating blueberries.

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

Iceland, Norway or Switzerland are nice places to be born into.
Also North America during the Boomer time was relatively easy.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm too addicted to modern conveniences. Put me in the future where all the problems of today are exaggerated further but hey at least there'll be some good content to consume.

 

[Bianka]

Definitely ancient Greece. I wanna talk to Plato Aristotle and Sophokles (yes I know I would have to live an irracionally long life for this to happen)

 

[bambie200]

Iceland, Norway or Switzerland are nice places to be born into.
Also North America during the Boomer time was relatively easy.

So true baby boomers are the most spoiled generation alive id want to be a man born in 1950 bc then I could actually own property in my lifetime

Definitely ancient Greece. I wanna talk to Plato Aristotle and Sophokles (yes I know I would have to live an irracionally long life for this to happen)

That's awesome !! If I could I'd like to meet Diogenes, I think he had things figured out Lol

 

[TheSoulless]

I hate being human so I wouldn't want to be a person at any point in human history. Instead, I would rather be a well-loved and well-fed housecat (still in the 21st century). That's the ultimate win at life imo. Being a (solitary) apex predator sounds pretty cool too (tiger, etc).

Same, being human sucks. I would like to be a bird.

 

[DarkRange55]

Here and now. "When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat."
- George Carlin

 

[sserafim]

Here and now. "When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat."
- George Carlin

America is basically bread and circuses

 

[DarkRange55]

America is basically bread and circuses

Are you referring to the Fall of Rome?

 

[sserafim]

Are you referring to the Fall of Rome?

No, I don't think so? ""Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace,[1] by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).
Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.[5]"

Bread and circuses - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[DarkRange55]

No. ""Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace,[1] by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).
Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.[5]"

Bread and circuses - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That sounds like most of history.

Sounds like most of human history:
"The purpose of politics is narrative, which functions to unify and mask, not to actually express the values of said narrative?"
The purpose of politics is to obtain or maintain power.

"Democracy and therefore voting is a farce, but that's no different from any other "System" since behind it sits power)? "
It's no different from other systems in that behind it since power, but it is different from other systems in how that power is controlled.

Good or evil depends upon a perspective. Humans consider antibiotics to be good, but many bacteria would disagree.

Power is the ability to make things happen, whether for good or for evil or for neither (a volcano has lots of power but it is neither good nor evil)

 

[Green Destiny]

Off the top of my head i'd love to be in New York City during the Gilded Age Roaring twenties. Swing Music, Speak Easies to hide from Prohibition and Automobiles were just becoming widespread throughout the country. Sounds like a fun time to be alive despite the great depression.