Somewhere In Time?

[PeterRS]

Back in my first years in Hong Kong, the movie "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour was a massive hit in the city. It ran for months and became the longest running movie ever up to that time, even eclipsing Bruce Lee movies.

Time! A friend asked me a question the other day that I have been asked a number of times before. If you could turn back the clock to any date and period in history, which would you choose - and why? The first time I was asked this a few years ago I assumed he meant in my llfetime and I had no hesitation in saying the first years I discovered Bangkok with its gogo bars and later the early saunas.

Only later I realised the question referred to historical times. And all our memories of what had occurred thereafter would be erased - other than the fact that we knew we were gay. At first the great age of the debauched Roman Emperors, notably Tiberius and Nero, seemed attractive until the deep love of Hadrian and Antinous appeared to usher a period when love transcended lust. Would feelings have played such a large part in my life back in time? I suppose in many ages there was not much else for the well-off to do - and I would only go back in time if I had a certain income to allow me to enjoy myself. I also wonder if I would have known about the often ghastly lives that the majority of populations lived. Could I have survived as a dandy in England living as I wished and enjoying life and all its pleasures especially at a variety of sex clubs at the start of the Industrial Revolution in England knowing that most children as young as 8 had to work often as much of 16 hours a day?

Probably only as much as I enjoy today knowing that we live in an era of political thieves and liars, climate change which everyone knows about but about which those in power do all but nothing, wars over religion which are still being fought as they have  been for millennia, and massive economic inequality which is leading us down a series of dangerous paths. I'd rather not go back.

[vinapu]

11 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Probably only as much as I enjoy today knowing that we live in an era of political thieves and liars, climate change which everyone knows about but about which those in power do all but nothing, wars over religion which are still being fought as they have  been for millennia, and massive economic inequality which is leading us down a series of dangerous paths. I'd rather not go back.

very sensible  not to pursue undertaking of project , impossible even to start. Thinking about next meal seems to be more productive

[Riobard]

I walked the full length of Mackinac Island looking for future crypto in the time it took to read this.