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Well, here's the way I see it.
Life has always sucked. Life has always been glorious. It's all a matter of your personal perspective, how lucky you've been to start with, and how hard you've worked.
What's especially fabulous about living NOW is that we have a choice. We can live a totally modern, gadget-oriented, automated life, or we can leave it behind and do the rustic, primitive thing. Or any combo along that continuum.
I love learning about history, particularly early American, colonial through the Depression, that's my little niche. It's cool to do some things like early settlers did, just to see how it felt, but then I want to go home to my a/c and hot running water.
I've had friends in the SCA (society for creative anachronism...I think that's it) and my one friend described it as "re-enacting the past, with benefit of modern conveniences."
Kind of like those PBS shows, 1900's house, Pioneer House, or whatever...those families knew that when their month was up they could go back to their ordinary lives, what a relief.
If someone offered me a trip on a time machine, I'd politely decline.
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