Thread: The world I would love to live in.

Originally Posted by deepweeds

Whenever some past era is offered for "the world I would love to live in," I suggest that the speaker imagine that he could be reborn in that era, but with no guarantees about what race, sex, or economic status he will be born into. These will be completely randomized. That being so, do you still want to go? Is it still "the world you want to live in"?

yes i would .. we have no control of this now , just choices and ways to improve our lives or make them worse for the most part .... of course im coming from a young white male on this now , but i would like to hope that no matter what the out come would have been my ethics , morals , or ideas would still stay the same !! the thing about this topic is that we can pretty much all think about how we would want it to be but in reality none of us will ever have it our way or our "perfect world " ..lol.. but in my opinion it is fun to think about , wonder about , or plan on how close we can get to it, sure every one of these post could be torn apart or have the downside brought into them , but sometimes the escape from reality is fun to play with !! ...

i figured i would go the more peaceful route in my make believe scenario , cause im sure if i went with a modernized opinion this thread would be shut down from the politics , justice system rants , and who knows what else that would be involved..lol

Now, seriously (after few beers): i've never that serious thought about living in a perfect world for ME, but rather going towards the better world for everyone.
What would be best world for me, myself and i would be a nightmare or lot to improve to someone else. That is why we have a thing called society with it's rules and regulations. It's called politics and it all depends on our cultures, history, international pacts and agreements and all. As said, world is no perfect but i see it getting better (and some ways worse) in time.

If i could or wanted to live free from society and all people, it would be easy to imagine a perfect world.
But even if no society, at the moment i have to deal wih any other person, be it friend, wife or child, we have to agree about common terms used between us. At the same moment someones perfect world collapses.
It's all about giving up some to gain some. To stick with the the that agreed or change them by common decision.

Can't no really compare to history. Slavery became illegal here in ad 1200 or so but i can easily imagine those slaves thinking as their position as justice, as long as they were given food, shelter and tools to work with. Perfect world for those who didn't need more that life in safety.

Now when i was young we had those folks living in a desert or wilderness, away from civilization.
They were called as 'horizon painters' for reason i do not know. They were mostly vets that just couldn't settle back on normal life. They lived mostly on hunting and occasionally working whenever someone offered a short time job. My grandfather did as he knew from a war time hell.
Those dudes were maybe 'free' from society and personal relationships but tome their life loked like life of an animal. I was sorry for them.

Human Beings are wired to live as they did millions of years ago in small clans with everyone related by blood. Humans looked with suspicion and fear on any outsiders. The appearance of strangers usually meant battle. As the population increased things had to change. Towns and cities and the laws to force folks to live together without killing each other en masse.

So we all live in an artificial environment bound by the laws designed to allow us to live together. However what we are has not changed one bit. We still view one another the same way we did when we were living in caves. The only exception is the universal threat so like a herd of Cape Buffalo we band together to face the threat until it's gone.

That's why some folks have this idea if only they could leave society and go to some deserted island somewhere and live by themselves all alone and just live off the land. It's just that primitive part of the brain trying to come out.