[chiller]

Which always raises the question; What is/was the ideal time to live on this earth ?

Those alive today came pretty close, I suppose, with advances in health. I peg it as born in 1945. If they were lucky they expired just before the '08 election, thinking there was a chance Obie wouldn't win the White Hut and the world was relatively safe. 63 years is a bit on the short side, but those of us who lasted into Obie's first and now second term know life will not be the same. Not good.

[Dysart]

You pose an interesting question. I'd like to have been around for the emigration to the New World from the Old. Yes, it would have been a hardscrabble life, but ponder the adventure on the high seas in transport and the vast Continental exploration that followed. Imagine the feeling of hope and freedom they must have experienced as they threw off the shackles of tyranny...more than a counterbalance.

63 years is a bit on the short side, but those of us who lasted into Obie's first and now second term know life will not be the same

Yes, a trying time, but better days are ahead. Or, it couldn't go anywhere but up from here post Obacolypse, right?

[omni-scientist]

I don’t think this is the ideal time to live. I loved the 1950s, growing up, but maybe that was just youthful exuberance and anticipation of what may come. So maybe the future holds good as well as bad for the human race. If, as some predict, we colonize throughout space, our chances of ultimate survival are vastly increased.