I think being 60 years behind on rights for women, minorities and alternative genders would be crushing. It would probably feel like living in a theocracy instead of the free world. Not to mention, being suspected of being a communist sympathizer was a big deal back then... So, freedom I guess. I think I'd miss hard fought-for freedoms.
You think I wake up to finding some trans man or woman being beaten or thrown in jail, and I wouldn't find that horrible? Why did you pick that one off my list? I'm genuinely curious. Why wouldn't I find the rights of people being taken lost (or in this case not granted yet) to be crushing?
I find it really curious how you grabbed that one off the list and said it wouldn't bother me (with the insinuation being maybe the others would?)
Why would one not bother me, but the others would?
I'd miss nothing as long as I had my bank account in this scenario, I'd start making bets predictions, maybe point scientists in the direction of a number of advances. I might try and go into things like partnership with the beatles manager Epstien before he signed them. All this and I can still pinch a Woman's ass... sounds perfect. No aids on the horizon, free love of the late sixties. Knowing my kids and grand kids existed in the multiverse and I was getting to live my best life.
Last edited by Old Man Whirly! on Nov 9th, 2022 at 10:48 AM
It was still a crime to beat them up so have no idea what youre harping on about.
I picked that because I think the world is just going mad with “alternative genders”. Its not some gigantic revolution for human rights in the last few decades. Its just the woke mob going in overdrive in the last 5 years.
Almost everything to be honest. Even setting aside social and political issues, my day-to-day life is too tied to modern technology. Stepping backwards would be hell.
Sure, I could adapt, and even find interesting things to do with my future knowledge. I wouldn't willingly go though. Visiting the past would be cool, but I wouldn't want to be permanently stuck there.
Last edited by StyleTime on Nov 10th, 2022 at 06:05 PM
Man I hate the way everything is online and self service. "Get online and fill out your paperwork" makes me crazy. Whirly, was it that way before the Internet? Were you responsible for every bit of data entry like that, or did companies try to make it easier for people? I just had a daughter (3 weeks old) and every single company seems to think I have a secretary.. like no, I'm just literally changing diapers and feeding and never sleeping, when on earth will I have time to get online and sign her up for every single appointment? It's crazy. A very much: serve yourself culture today that the Internet tricked us into thinking was good for us, that's my opinion.
I'm at the opposite extreme. I'm ready to become a cyborg, merge with my phone, and have my consciousness exist uploaded to the cloud lol.
I don't know. Sounds like nostalgia goggles tbh.
You still had to do that stuff before, except you'd have to use pen & paper or even go in-person. You now how devices that auto-fill much of those documents for you. It takes less time than back then.
Even for phone calls, cell phones kick the shit out of landlines for the simple fact you aren't tethered to one spot.
Last edited by StyleTime on Nov 11th, 2022 at 02:41 PM
I agree with you about the mega convenience that we're just never going to go back to the way things were.
However it's actually really bad for our eye-hand coordination not to write with a pen anymore.
Must be a lot of other ill effects as well, people like my Dad (who was never very techy and still isn't) see how we've all become literal zombies on our phones. It's especially bad for kids (but if they don't get on it they'll get left behind pretty quickly in technology).
I try to keep my phone at a distance (Use the speaker phone a lot to talk and try not to keep it in my pocket).
Nov 9th, 2022 01:22 AM
