Would you like to be born in a different time?

Soundwave · 05-19-2009, 08:11 PM

I think I would have enjoyed being born in the 70's. That way I could have enjoyed the 70's and early 80's metal era. I barely started getting into metal in the late 90's.

boo boo · 05-19-2009, 08:15 PM

You wouldn't want to be born in the 70s or you'd miss out on it, you'd be a little kid, which means your music collection would consist of Bay City Rollers and David Cassidy records.

dac · 05-19-2009, 08:29 PM

The future! Even more great music will be out by then.

lucifer_sam · 05-19-2009, 10:37 PM

i thank god every morning that i was too young to care when Kurt Cobain died.

still had to sift through his shit on the radio for some ten years after that.

sleepy jack · 05-19-2009, 10:49 PM

I like the music scene now. I wish I could go back in time and see Elliott Smith but that wouldn't have to do with age so much as me being aware of his existence at an earlier age.

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Originally Posted by boo boo

This is an unfortunate time we live in. Everyone is so unmotivated. I mean some hard sh*t went down in the 60s and people actually did something about it. Today things are so freaking bad, but young people today are so apathetic and unmotivated. We think doing "peaceful" protests, writing angry blogs and voting actually makes a difference. And it doesn't.

Of course I can't say I'm a paricularly active person myself. But it's an odd feeling, there's so much going on in the world right now, yet I feel like there's really nothing to do.

On one hand, this technological revolution has allowed me to explore more music and learn more than ever. On the other, it's very desensitizing.

Well if King George III had initiated a draft you probably start to see radicalism and protesting but as he didn't the vast majority of Americans didn't care because neither the Afghan or Iraqi war has had any effect on them. The problems today are largely economic and you can't really protest a recession out of existence.

Also voting and protesting do make a difference; I don't know why you'd think they wouldn't (especially considering you're lamenting the passing of sixties activism...which was protesting and voting.) There hasn't really been a large protest movement in modern times but that's because there's been nothing with a significant amount of impact on everyday life. If McCain had been elected and died and there was a more conservative supreme court as a result of it (since the liberal judges seem to be dropping recently) and they outlawed abortion you'd see a pretty radical movement for it again. As far as voting goes this is still a democracy, even if it's dominated by two parties. Writing your Congressman is more is typically effective then voting though.

Darkest Hour · 05-19-2009, 11:18 PM

back to the millisecond the big bang happened. What year was that?

lucifer_sam · 05-19-2009, 11:20 PM

1989

i have no proof the Earth existed before that.

Norg · 05-20-2009, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

This is an unfortunate time we live in. Everyone is so unmotivated. I mean some hard sh*t went down in the 60s and people actually did something about it. Today things are so freaking bad, but young people today are so apathetic and unmotivated. We think doing "peaceful" protests, writing angry blogs and voting actually makes a difference. And it doesn't.

Of course I can't say I'm a paricularly active person myself. But it's an odd feeling, there's so much going on in the world right now, yet I feel like there's really nothing to do.

On one hand, this technological revolution has allowed me to explore more music and learn more than ever. On the other, it's very desensitizing.

back then there was a thing called the Draft where ur country forced u to go to War and if u tried to not go u would be aressted or it was aganist the law 2 do that

now there is no draft so people are less motivated when it comes to war stuff

sleepy jack · 05-20-2009, 12:08 AM

Hey that's a really good point.

boo boo · 05-20-2009, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Norg

back then there was a thing called the Draft where ur country forced u to go to War and if u tried to not go u would be aressted or it was aganist the law 2 do that

now there is no draft so people are less motivated when it comes to war stuff

Heh, that does make a lot of sense.

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dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	The future! Even more great music will be out by then. __________________

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lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	i thank god every morning that i was too young to care when Kurt Cobain died. still had to sift through his shit on the radio for some ten years after that. __________________ first.am

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Darkest Hour Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 764	back to the millisecond the big bang happened. What year was that? __________________

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lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	1989 i have no proof the Earth existed before that. __________________ first.am

05-19-2009, 08:11 PM	#31 (permalink)
Soundwave Groupie Join Date: May 2009 Location: California Posts: 11	I think I would have enjoyed being born in the 70's. That way I could have enjoyed the 70's and early 80's metal era. I barely started getting into metal in the late 90's.