Posted on 06/26/2021 8:14:03 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught
My parents are both passed. They were born in the 1920’s, Dad served in WW2 and Mom worked at Bell Telephone. She also had 13 kids and became an RN, but that is another story. Both would often tell me of the extremely tough times during the Great Depression. Mom said she remembers as a little girl with nothing to eat, she would sometimes chew the edge of a pencil just to satisfy the need to chew. Dad also experienced the lack of food and till his last day, never let any food go to waste. Found out after his passing from his friend at Dad’s funeral, he told me of the horrific days in Guadalcanal. My dad lost his buddy right before his own eyes, from a grenade blast. My Dad when asked, never ever shared his experience, only saying you don’t need to know.
In America, (not Europe) with all the terrible circumstances and events in the 1930’s and 1940s, they still had something that we no longer have. They had America. They had true family values. There was no social justice hijacking of businesses or the individual. There was no platform to allow or perpetuate the psychosis of one gender to say they are the opposite gender. There was no “Defund the Police”. There was no demonization of our Flag. There was no cancel culture. There was no one party rule. There was no enforcement of a fake vaccine that causes countless deaths and disabilities.
So my question to you, if you could go back to the 1930s or 1940s in exchange with our current times, would you?
Yes, agree.
Thank your for your comment.
It would have been bliss to be born in New York in 1920, then go from age 10 to 20 in the thirties in Manhattan. Could’ve gotten into all kinds of fun stuff. I would’ve loved that. Unfortunately, would’ve had to go to WW2. But I’ll take my own lot, born in ‘47, kid in SoCal in the fifties, then got to do the sixties, and boy howdy, they were great. Sixties were the best decade in many centuries. But would’ve been quite nice to live in England in the 30 years leading up to WW1.
I would rather take my chances and go a hundred years into the future.
I would, but I would take a couple boxes of antibiotics with me.
George tried that but ended up dealing with the Morloks...
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Hahaha
Now we have the Morons...
I prefer the Morloks to the current Morons.
I asked my grandmother, who was raised on a farm, about the Great Depression. She said that crops were good and animals were healthy. They really didn’t notice that things were bad in the rest of the country.
Her school was in a one-room schoolhouse. The teacher would reheat a pot of beans each day for the kids to eat. She remembered driving a horse and buggy over gravel roads (which were relatively new in her area and considered nice roads). She met then married my grandfather just before WWII.
I can see positives and negatives of returning to a time like that. For one, the people in those times didn’t know what was coming. They just lived their lives and tried to improve their lot in life. On the other, the modern conveniences, variety of food, healthcare, entertainment, travel and the internet would be an absolute shock.
Just give me my mid-20s year old self and then you’d have a deal!
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Deal!
You can choose your age. :)
We are just as much at fault. After all of the sacrifices made to pass a free country to us, we sold it our for cheap communist manufacturing and for the privilege of sitting on our tails and being entertained by the leftists who taught our kids to hate this country.
And maybe our kids wouldn't have grown up to hate this country if we hadn't shipped their jobs to China. Can you name one other generation that shipped its own kids' jobs out of the country?
I would not, because I assume I would not be able to change what already happened (except I assume I would not be able to visit the baby version of myself in the ‘60s), and I would have to see it all go away, helplessly. Who am I going to stop Alger Hiss, Mao, Castro? No, they would win anyway, and like a male Cassandra I would be ignored, mocked and laughed at. My fortune from betting against the Whiz Kid Phillies and buying shares of Hewlett-Packard would be of little use.
My father in law (a 24 waist gunner) said to me one day, not long after fake Texan daddy Bush mentioned “a new world order, and a thousand points of light” (something like that) : “Son, I am afraid your uncle Harold died for nothing.” (my mom’s only brother was a 24 tail gunner, and perished on his first mission, when the plane crashed in a lake in Germany)
We’re witnessing the last gasp and last grasp of the central planners. It’s a terrifying and exciting time, and I wouldn’t want to miss it. We’ve all got ringside seats to the glorious bonfire of the vanities, to quote Wolfe.
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You make excellent points and I hope we win this war.
My uncle from northern michigan stayed in California after his discharge from the Navy in WWII. He married a girl whose dad was a citrus farmer in Anaheim and owned beach property in Huntington beach when that was all farmland and oil rigs. They would spend their weekends in a cabin on the beach with no one else around.
Only if I would be able to use the time machine again when I reach 1964 the second time around. After that, life in the USA deteriorated rapidly.
Unfortunately, there are no time machines, and the sequence of cause and effect keeps going in a forward direction only, and no human can ever step out of it. No human can ever reverse the flow of constant change that every finite object undergoes.
Only God is outside of the continuum cause/effect and is not bound by it. For God there is no present moment, nor any past, nor any future.
Might as well imagine being God himself. Not gonna happen.
“As for the culture. You’d find yourself completely out of place. We are uniquely the creatures of our time. Which is why we should not try to evaluate the motives and morals of our ancestors, because those were the motives and morals of that time. Evaluate not, lest you be evaluated. And, leave the damned statues alone.”
Absolutely true!
I’ve been trying to predict what people living what they consider a normal life today mighf be castigated for a hundred years from now.
One not unrealistic example is this.
If the vegetarian and vegan culture became overwhemingly dominant, I can see people whose ancestors were “flesh eaters” to be as demonized as descenters of slave holders are today.
Can you think of other possibilities?
“My target year would be 1984.”
You are there! We’re living in a toxic combination of “1984” and “Brave New World “.
Easily. I’m a technologist. I’d make a billion dollars real quick.
1956 or 57 would be great. Lot of good times in those years.
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