Would you be able to live in the past?
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Would you be able to live in the past?
Knowing what we do about the past, how far back in time would you be willing to live? Could you leave everything you've ever known behind and completely start over? What social taboos associated with the time period would worry you the most?
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The only agreement I would make would be the obvious one - to return to my own past without the ability to return to the present only if I could know what I know now, in the present, and could change my future.
Other than that I would be willing to return to my past with the understanding that I could not change the future provided that I could return to the present any time I choose.
Despite our feelings of nostalgia regarding the past and our disillusion with many things in the present the past, especially past centuries, were far, far more difficult times to live in, for many reasons, than the present.
― Steven Wright
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