The Navel Gazing Interview… Continued…
Continuing the interview started here a couple of days ago, I am jumping to question five since it is probably the easiest for me to answer, and I am huge on paths of least resistance.
If you had a time machine and the option of traveling to two different times to live, would you choose 1900…or 2100? And why?
2100. No hesitation.
I never studied history in high school or college. The only history I ever read was future-history, called science fiction by most. My aptitude, my education and training and experience, and my fantasies all fit more easily and comfortably in a future, unknown scenario, than in the past.
Yes, a trip back to 1900 to test my survival skills, to a time of simpler and in some ways easier living, has a certain romantic allure. To live in the cities and wade knee-deep in horse-shit in the streets (yep, they did!), or to live Little House style out on the edge of the wilderness, waiting for the next lawless band of heathens to attack, and to live to a ripe old actuarial table age of 47… Yeah, those things converge to really draw me in…
No, thanks. I’ll take my chances on a future where I will likely be the most backward and least educated, but will be able to use whatever innate abilities I have, along with my survival skills, to learn how to survive in a brave new world.
Oops… I shudda asked this before answering. Will there still be a Bush ruining the country in 2100? If so, then I would rather wade knee-deep in horse shit and take my chances in 1900.
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Definitely with you on 2100…even though I wasn’t a big sci-fi fan, I likely would’ve been shot on the spot back in the 1900’s with all those men expecting me to “behave”. Ugh.
I’d go back. 1900 (10 years before my dad was born) was a time before antibiotics but mostly peaceful in this country, not quite as primitive as some might imagine but definitely a simpler time than today. I am not sure what another 90 years will bring us but it’s not looking good and we may come to a place where we can’t depend on food sources to not be poisoned, have environmental catastrophy, antibiotics again not working, and more new diseases. To me I was born about the perfect time but not sure at all that the future will have solved any of the problems facing us currently which also makes me hesitant about whether I’d want to come back if reincarnation is true…
I with you on this one…2100. If I wanted to live a harder life, I would just audition to be on Survivor. LOL
If you are working on a time machine, it doesn’t matter how long you take….