The Imagination Prompt for today is: If I could live in any era of history and ten reasons why may be it.  There are a lot of historical eras that would be interesting to visit, but, while I lament our current times as the likely end of the United States as it was founded, I’m not sure I’d want to live in any other era.  I considered living earlier in the 20th Century — my grandparent’s era.  So many discoveries were made and so many changes happened during their lifetimes, but I know even then many people considered it End Times.  I have to believe so much of what I’m feeling is a generational thing and somehow, despite my resistance to change, the world will stumble forward.

If something is going to happen to bring about the end of the world, so be it.  There isn’t much I can do to stop it.  I believe the same about so-called man-made global warming.  It’s pretty vain to think we can have a significant impact on the earth.  On the other hand, there’s no reason to purposefully trash our environment, either.  It makes sense to take reasonable measures to ensure we have clean air and water.

The more I think about or investigate various eras, the more I realize each has problems and joys that accompany it.  Of course, visiting from other eras would only cause problems and increase confusion, so its best to remain in my own era, fighting through the uncertainties and dealing with the unknowns.  Eventually, all will become known, so I think a desire to travel to a different era is more out of a desire to experience a known quantity.  Unfortunately, once you travel there, it’s no longer a known quantity, because the information that makes the history books is so limited.  It would be a much more multi-dimensional experience in person and far more confusing that we might think.

What do you think about time travel and it’s possible value?