If you could choose to be born at any point in history or the future when would you choose?

I live across from a nursery school and you can see the kids 5/6 years running around happily playing ,not a care in the world.l sometimes think what the world will be like for them if and when they ever get to my age. That would be 2090s.

 

Plenty of times I'd like to visit (dinosaurs, JFK assassination, BFC winning FA Cup being a few) but I don't think I'd rather have been born at any other point.

 

It always creases me my the younger generations of today think that the baby boomers had the best of it. I’m of that generation and believe me they couldn’t be more wrong. The country was on its arse end after the Second World War. I went to primary school in class sizes of 45/50. What there was in terms of equipment was all prewar. I never saw a new textbook or reading book until well into secondary school. The term ‘mental health issues’ hadn’t been coined but they existed all the same. Most people had nowt and there was nowt to have.
Would I change it if l could? Absolutely not. On the plus side I witnessed a young energetic generation throw off the deprivations of the time. The Beatles, the Stones,Twiggy, Carnaby Street, the mini skirt. The growth of television via which I saw England win the World Cup, man walk on the moon and the fascination surrounding the the assassination of JFK.
No it wasn’t handed to them on a plate as many today like to think, the baby boomers made it happen.

 

Agreed, born in 1972, would take it back 20 years to enjoy all that music first time found!!

 

I can’t wait to bump this thread back to the top in 150 years time to see if you were right

 

It was in reference to the 1912 cup final hence the connection. Nothing more than that I guess. I Don't think the poster was being disrespective in that. The thing is. No one can change the course of history if you think logically. Because it never would have happened in the first place. And not been talked about or recorded.
My gripe with religion is these mythical gods are all powerful. supposedy. yet sit on the sidelines watching it happen.
My biggest fear is reincarnation and coming back as a leeds fan lol. Arrrrrrrrgh.

 

Quite happy with '81 really I mean, what an era.

Michael Jackson on the radio, watch a bit of the Cosby Show on the weekend, bit of Jim'll Fix It. Rolf Harris on after school, or Phillip Schofield in the broom cupboard. Michael Barrymore quizzes weekday nights...

The golden era

 

But then you'd probably be off to the trenches to fight the Hun

 

Ah! What about the grandfather paradox. The problem is any action you took if you time travelled would change time lines Even if youavoid contact with any known relative what's to say by coincidence a passenger who did not sail turns out to be a violent killer and by further coincidence kills your grandmother great grandmother and you were never born. Therefore not having been born you could not have gone back in time to save the passenger. Various theories exist as to the result of the paradox all the way up to destroying the know universe. We will never know. I, for one do not believe time travel is possible and never will be.

 

Yes but the question wasn't about travelling back in time, it's about being born in a different time so the grandfather paradox wouldn't apply.

 

Ah the good old knowledge of hindsight. Who knows what will come to light from this era in a couple of decades?

 

It was a joke...

 

I know full well that the OP was about being born in a different era - thanks for pointing that out - but the specific post a well as a couple of others I responded to veered the way if time travel since having the knowledge to change things could only come from travelling from the 'then future' and using that knowledge means paradox becomes possible. FWIW, for all it's faults, being born in '54 the pressures of being young in the 60s 70s were far less than they are for today's youth. Generally people are materially better off or at least were up to the last several years and mobile phones, internet, colour TV and streaming were all. stuff of Science fiction. The definition of poverty has changed you don't see kids playing in the streets in bare feet like the post war years in some parts of the country. For most though, what we never had we never missed and generally people were more social

 

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Sorry it was not a dig at you. You are right though, every successive era erodes the innocent times we all think we live(d)
through.

 

Bit touchy aren't you

 

That’s what that lad said to Philip Schofield…look how that ended

 

If I knew then what I know now, I’d be at the Lesser Free Trade Hall 47 yrs ago to the day.
The legendary Pistols gig with only 30 odd folk in the crowd, many of which were totally influenced and hence the “punk” years

 

Be quite happy going back to 70's when I was born - life seemed simpler back then. Loved my childhood- bikes, swimming, football, cricket etc - family whom I cared for were still around. Great days

 

At least there won’t be parking issue like we get every school day.
All the kids will be flying into school with jet propelled back packs.

 

I wouldn't change the period i have had, some really bad times for me but god I had the best of times for the rest. 60's and 70's music in my formative years. 12 years Royal Navy in the years it was the biggest boys club in the country. Great times with great mates and i sailed the world, and got paid for it. I came out and joined the Police on the Monday as the Falklands were invaded on the Wednesday. Then i worked Sheffield then Wombwell without as much as a bruise or worry and was paid to sit on the track round Oakwell every game until I was on footbeat on the High Street and collapsed in the doorway of the old Co-Op. Turns out I had Menieres Disease which I still have to this day this caused a stroke in the balance section of the brain so i left the Police on a medical. Within weeks Hillsborough happened, I would have been working that without doubt. I never worked in Rotherham so the grooming cases passed me by. nursed the wife for 12 years 24 hours a day 7 days a week, along with my brother for a few years. The kick in the teeth was all the things she was treated for were imagined the autopsy showed slight spinal problems the rest were figments I had really wasted 12 years.
So there you go, good and bad but I'm happy with my life with my kids and grandkids so if I koofer it tomorrow I've done a great deal with my three score year and ten (Watch this space thats in February lol)

May Safe space for a time lol