C.N.Pitts
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Okay, no more wonking about the evils of Kindle, promise. ::)
The one thing about ranting about how the digital age is destroying such a huge chunk of human accomplishment got me to thinking though... if there were such a thing as a time machine and you could visit any period in history thus far that you wished to live out your life, where would you choose to go?
Obviously, all of it's good and bad. You pick the 80s, you can make a killing in real estate but the music is terrible. (Oh yeah, and you end up dying where we are now). Go a bit further back, men are all wearing hats and gapped toohed children named Jimmy deliver your newspaper every day in a cloud of americana, but the world trembles in fear at the threat of nuclear holocaust. Further back and there's a war on. Further than that, beer is illegal and women cant vote. Back a little more, war again. Back some more, everyone's on horses and scurvy is a terminal illness. And so on.
Me, I think I'd plug in niceley somewhere around 1936. Prohibition's over, cars exist, writing is appreciated, and the great lurch towards modern life is just getting underway. And I'll be dead before social networking shows up, thank god.
It's either than or Victorian England. I can't help but think I'd be happy there as well.
So, given the choice, would you stay or would you go? And if so, where?
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