Would you rather have been born in a different generation?

[raccoon]

I used to think maybe I'd rather have been in what Tom Brokaw called
"the greatest generation." (I'm a boomer.)

I like radio programs and there is something to be said for knowing what is expected of you. I mean, knowing traditional sex roles, etc.

OTOH, incredible sexism, racism, and no air conditioning. Not to mention,
IMO, lousy music. No rock music! For that alone I'm glad now I wasn't in that generation.

[Scuba]

1. Yeah ...

"Would you happen to know what month of the year it is?"

"I surely wouldn't."

[Iggo]

2. Yup. The most recent.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I used to think so...

Could have been perfectly happy living 1970's on a continuous loop
but then, would have missed out on Freddy Mercury's continued greatness
and on
computers!!!

Now, being born in a different country.....THERE's something to think about.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. I wish I was 10 years older

Then I could have been closer to the changes during the 60's. By the time I got to age, the Summer of Love, Woodstock all of it was in the rearview mirror.

[MrScorpio]

5. Actually, not really

I only wish that I had put a premium on living a healthier lifestyle at an earlier age


Getting old sucks.

[noamnety]

6. No nonononono

The draft. No. Just no.

[bigwillq]

7. No (nt)

[femmocrat]

8. Not really. The 60s was a historic time to be young and rebellious.

I do admire the Greatest Generation though. I would love to go back in time and hang out at the canteen with the GIs and dance the jitterbug!

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Funny you should mention that.

I was just thinking that I was born a century too early. But, then it occurred to me that the America that I envision in the future may not turn out as evolved as I expect it would be, unless each one of us in this time and era do our share to reinforce the Fourteenth Amendment.

[seaglass]

10. Yikes, I see no benefit in "knowing what is expected of you re: traditional sex roles." The only

way I would desire being born in a different generation is if I was born a man. Can't think of any earlier time when it was better to live as a woman.

[noamnety]

12. I completely agree.

Can't help reading the parallel - "knowing what is expected of you re: traditional racial roles."

Kind of brings home what's wrong with feeling all nostalgic about a time when people weren't all uppity about wanted to be treated as equals, right?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. I know what's expected of me now

but can ignore it.

If the job jar gets too full, I can get a bigger jar.



"Greatest generation" also had that pesky WW2 to deal with. No gasoline, no tires, other shortages.

[Arugula Latte]

11. I like generation of the "kids" who were born in the 80s.

They are cool and liberal and can recognize propaganda (including religion). I like that bunch generally much better than my Reagan Youth generation born in the mid-60s. Plus, they had the Internet when they were relatively young. That would have been awesome.

[Yavin4]

13. "the greatest generation." ?!?!

The generation that had to endure the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, a massive world war on almost every continent where millions of people were killed, raped, tortured, bombed, and brutalized?

No thank you. I'll pass.

[raccoon]

17. well, actually I was thinking of living in the USA in relative safety.

True, in some countries, such as Germany, almost a whole generation of men were wiped out in combat and as POWs.

[Yavin4]

14. I'm a boomer but I'd much rather be a Millenial

I wish I would've been born in the 21st century. Even with all of the problems that we have, life today is undoubtedly better than at any other time in our history.

[Paper Roses]

15. Born in 1942, grew up in a great time. Never had much, never missed it.

Great times are over. No more simple things. There is too much going on now for me to understand. This old mind remembers when things were better. I worry about so many things now, especially situations that affect us as a nation.

I have children and grandchildren. I fear for them and for all who are young and have to find their way in this messed up world.
If you told me 50 or even 25 years ago that the state of the nation and the world would be as it now is, I would have said that it is not possible. How wrong was I!

[BlueJazz]

18. I would have liked to have been born about 1915.