If you could have lived life in any time…when would it be?

I’ve often pondered this question.

But i always come back to the fact that “i am alive now,” and so i should ask “how should i live /this/ life, in /this/ time?”

Not saying you’re wrong to ask and ponder.

I rather like the time portrayed in the old “kung fu movies.”

Back when all that mattered was honor and kung fu. I think i would have excelled in such a setting.

I also think i would rather enjoy some distant future where most of what is so wrong with today’s world, has been corrected, but without some globally catastrophic event. I don’t so much mind technology, i actually prefer it in many ways, but there is a lot of it that is just… wrong, i guess. On one hand, i agree with the “apple” approach, in that things should just work, and be intuitive. OTOH, i disagree with their proprietary lock-in strategies (and no, M$ windows really isn’t better in that regard, but due to directX, windows is the only “viable” PC gaming platform…).

I think things can be both complex, and also simplified.

So, “if i could have lived in any time…” seems like a question i’d have to answer with “a time that has not yet occurred.” The futuristic utopia i can imagine could exist, but most likely never will. Then again, we only really have romanticized accounts of the past, and history written by the winners. So i can’t help but wonder “what really happened?” back then. Maybe the past was far worse than we’ve been told. I think we have enough evidence to suggest that is somewhat likely.