The Ideal Era for living.

[DK II]

my 60" LCD says today isn't so bad

i would never want to live without today's technology!!

[Deicide]

i would never want to live without today's technology!!

Why not? It doesn't just  have advantages...

[Lundgren]

i would never want to live without today's technology!!

That's because your a techno queer like the rest of us, were all turning into nerds, 50 years ago I wouldn't even know how to read.

[Ex Coelis]

I think living as a Native American in a place like the west coast before it was untouched by white man would have been a pretty fucking amazing life.  Hard yet very rewarding.  I mean shit think about it.......life is so fake nowadays especially being a man.  Back then you had to literally protect your family, be brave, courageous, fight off animals, fight off other males/tribes, hunt, survive winter.  What do most men do nowadays?  Go to the gym and lift weights?  Drive around in a car and go to a job in an office? 

go live in the woods for a couple days and we'll see how much you like it

[wavelength]

There never was and never will be a better era than right now.

[affeman]

There never was and never will be a better era than right now.

15 yrs ago was better, when the living standard was already high from a technical standpoint, but the internet didn't rule quite everything yet.

80s and 90s were the best times ever I guess. From now on it's going downhill.

[wavelength]

15 yrs ago was better, when the living standard was already high from a technical standpoint, but the internet didn't rule quite everything yet.

80s and 90s were the best times ever I guess. From now on it's going downhill.

romantic childhood memory distortion syndrom

[Deicide]

There never was and never will be a better era than right now.

Das ist doch nicht dein Ernst?

[wavelength]

Das ist doch nicht dein Ernst?

why not?

[Tapeworm]

[Lundgren]

romantic childhood memory distortion syndrom

Bullshit you can't deny the fundmental shift in culture that the internets brot with it.

Trivial shit like steriods would be way more unknown if you had to rely on honest gym rats. Live bands were killed by dj's.

Were living in a shit time for old school americana.

[affeman]

romantic childhood memory distortion syndrom

You got a pathological syndrom to whitewash anything concerning yourself, even the current era u gotta live in.

[JOHN MATRIX]

15 yrs ago was better, when the living standard was already high from a technical standpoint, but the internet didn't rule quite everything yet.

80s and 90s were the best times ever I guess. From now on it's going downhill.

this. 80's was the perfect balance; plenty of technology and high standard of living, but technology and surveilance and internet/media control of everything and instantism/generation nothing were still a long way off.

these days we are only a step away from big brother/police state/complete personal incompetence and emptiness

[Soul Crusher]

this. 80's was the perfect balance; plenty of technology and high standard of living, but technology and surveilance and internet/media control of everything and instantism/generation nothing were still a long way off.

these days we are only a step away from big brother/police state/complete personal incompetence and emptiness

Yup.   I remember being 16 in 1990 going into bars and it being no big deal, you could do stupid shit and it not result in a felony, etc etc. 

Young people have no clue how fun it used to be.   

[newmom]

1986 - I am happy with this era in general and blissfully ignorant of any others.

this is true

[DK II]

Yup.   I remember being 16 in 1990 going into bars and it being no big deal, you could do stupid shit and it not result in a felony, etc etc. 

Young people have no clue how fun it used to be.   

That's true.

You could do a lot of shit in the 90s that you would end up in jail for today.

[kiwiol]

i would never want to live without today's technology!!

Ditto. People saying some past date was better are just romanticising things. The 90s was better than the 80s, which was better than the 70s and so on.

One of those decades might be better than a later one, but only in regards to one small aspect of life, like music or whatever.

[DK II]

Ditto. People saying some past date was better are just romanticising things. The 90s was better than the 80s, which was better than the 70s and so on.

One of those decades might be better than a later one, but only in regards to one small aspect of life, like music or whatever.

The best thing is, in 2010 you can listen to all music form the 80s, 70s, 18th century, 2010. Isn't that great?

And last month i bought Commando on BluRay and watched that on my widescreen TV, beats VHS by a mile, don't you think?

I don't want to live in the past, maybe the future is better, but nobody knows that. (Edit: except gh15, of course.)

[wavelength]

You got a pathological syndrom to whitewash anything concerning yourself, even the current era u gotta live in.

cranky, are we?

[MuscleMcMannus]

go live in the woods for a couple days and we'll see how much you like it

   I spent 4 weeks backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail.  I actually "lived in the woods" when I was 21 years old in Leadville, Colorado for 6 months with no heat, no electricity, only the water I could boil, and all the food I could pack in.  Short of packing in food it was pretty rustic.  It was the most amazing time of my life.  I spent the days paddling down the Arkansas, hiking, etc.  I've spent so much time in the "woods" that I've come home and had to scrub my skin for days to get the mud, dirt, and stench off me.  It's a spiritual experience. 

Most guys on in this thread who love their technology couldn't last one night sleeping in an RV without their flat screens, cell phones, and porn.

[Ex Coelis]

 I spent 4 weeks backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail.  I actually "lived in the woods" when I was 21 years old in Leadville, Colorado for 6 months with no heat, no electricity, only the water I could boil, and all the food I could pack in.  Short of packing in food it was pretty rustic.  It was the most amazing time of my life.  I spent the days paddling down the Arkansas, hiking, etc.  I've spent so much time in the "woods" that I've come home and had to scrub my skin for days to get the mud, dirt, and stench off me.  It's a spiritual experience.  

Most guys on in this thread who love their technology couldn't last one night sleeping in an RV without their flat screens, cell phones, and porn.

impressive

I just got off a 7 week Recon course so I never want to see the woods again

[MuscleMcMannus]

impressive

I just got off a 7 week Reccon course so I never want to see the woods again

Yes there are some wonderful things about 21st century life.......mostly the women.

[_bruce_]

1950's US.

[sync pulse]

The 1920's would be my choice to go back in time and live.  I like the music, clothes, the fact that this was a seminal time in science and technology...So many things were just being conceived...Broadcasting, television, automotive cultures.

[Agnostic007]

Was born in 62.. Pretty happy with experiencing the 70's growing up. I think it would have been cool to be born in 1950 to experience the hey day of the Summer of Love and all the late 60's scene but with my luck I would have been drafted and killed in what turned out to be a senseless war.

Frank Sinatra makes a case for being around in the early 60's. Man if I could have lived anyones life, it would probably have been his..

But all in all, I'm pretty happy with the era I grew up in. It gave us the Partridge Family