What were you ACTUALLY born in the wrong generation for?

[h00]

@h00 @I-330 @Jade @jaedaen @LeVil_78 @LostintheCycle @manpaint @Punp @RisingThumb @Jack-O'-Lantern @Chitauri @SolidStateSurvivor @zalaz alaza @№56
sorry to ping + sorry if i missed anyone who is on about this theme!
you are my inteligentsia <3

i know few of you like this theme, so i pinged you - Education has fallen!

some sentiments i have: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Doom-gloom-city-pop/Utopistic_Nostalgias

youre a pillar of the road porcs
bless

 

[zalaz alaza]

@h00 @I-330 @Jade @jaedaen @LeVil_78 @LostintheCycle @manpaint @Punp @RisingThumb @Jack-O'-Lantern @Chitauri @SolidStateSurvivor @zalaz alaza @№56
sorry to ping + sorry if i missed anyone who is on about this theme!
you are my inteligentsia <3

i know few of you like this theme, so i pinged you - Education has fallen!

some sentiments i have: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Doom-gloom-city-pop/Utopistic_Nostalgias

yr a good one porcu!

 

[Caspar]

What things you have you done/wanted to do that truly cannot be done any more?

I want to do my duty to a legitimate authority, have a faithful wife and kids, and do honest work for honest pay - and I would like to live in a society where this is the norm. Alas.

 

[no_chill]

I want to do my duty to a legitimate authority, have a faithful wife and kids, and do honest work for honest pay - and I would like to live in a society where this is the norm. Alas.

Thats fascist /s

 

[Some_porcupine]

I want to do my duty to a legitimate authority, have a faithful wife and kids, and do honest work for honest pay - and I would like to live in a society where this is the norm. Alas.

50s but without the bad things

 

[Caspar]

Thats fascist /s

Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer haufen; und wollen mit tyrannen raufen; spiess voran; drauf und dran!

50s but without the bad things

Which '50s haha? I'd rather the 17's much more than the 19's. It's not the technology or the length of the life; it's the meaning within.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer haufen; und wollen mit tyrannen raufen; spiess voran; drauf und dran!

Which '50s haha? I'd rather the 17's much more than the 19's. It's not the technology or the length of the life; it's the meaning within.

1750s... Before "industrial catastrophe" *accident*?

 

[№56]

I want to experience being a self-sufficient adult in a world without smartphones, and I don't care if that's a boring answer.
Everything the smartphone has touched has turned to garbage and nearly everything I dislike about the modern world can be tied into smartphone usage in some way. They're unavoidable. Even if you don't carry one yourself you still have to deal with living in a world where everyone else does. It's still possible to get by without owning one, but every year it seems to become less convenient. As much as I hate them, I own one myself and can't blame anyone else for doing so. They've made themselves necessary. Modern restaurants, banks, schools, parking garages, public transportation, etc. are all designed around the assumption that you have a smartphone. Social interaction, even if you're a grown-up, revolves around the smartphone. You need a messaging app to communicate with anyone. You're expected to have a phone camera on hand to document social events to prove that they happened. You can't even go on a date anymore without submitting a photo gallery of your everyday life beforehand, like you're listing yourself for sale on eBay.
I'm so sick of it all. It's not enough to get rid of my own smartphone, I want to live in a world where smartphones aren't necessary at all and where I don't have to deal with their side effects. That's the one thing I miss the most when I think about life in previous generations.

 

[Some_porcupine]

I want to experience being a self-sufficient adult in a world without smartphones, and I don't care if that's a boring answer.
Everything the smartphone has touched has turned to garbage and nearly everything I dislike about the modern world can be tied into smartphone usage in some way. They're unavoidable. Even if you don't carry one yourself you still have to deal with living in a world where everyone else does. It's still possible to get by without owning one, but every year it seems to become less convenient. As much as I hate them, I own one myself and can't blame anyone else for doing so. They've made themselves necessary. Modern restaurants, banks, schools, parking garages, public transportation, etc. are all designed around the assumption that you have a smartphone. Social interaction, even if you're a grown-up, revolves around the smartphone. You need a messaging app to communicate with anyone. You're expected to have a phone camera on hand to document social events to prove that they happened. You can't even go on a date anymore without submitting a photo gallery of your everyday life beforehand, like you're listing yourself for sale on eBay.
I'm so sick of it all. It's not enough to get rid of my own smartphone, I want to live in a world where smartphones aren't necessary at all and where I don't have to deal with their side effects. That's the one thing I miss the most when I think about life in previous generations.

this is how the peak tech looks like

edit: also miss when net was "there to topple *patriarchy*/society/hierarchy" or whatnot

 

[InsufferableCynic]

I want to experience being a self-sufficient adult in a world without smartphones, and I don't care if that's a boring answer.
Everything the smartphone has touched has turned to garbage and nearly everything I dislike about the modern world can be tied into smartphone usage in some way. They're unavoidable. Even if you don't carry one yourself you still have to deal with living in a world where everyone else does. It's still possible to get by without owning one, but every year it seems to become less convenient. As much as I hate them, I own one myself and can't blame anyone else for doing so. They've made themselves necessary. Modern restaurants, banks, schools, parking garages, public transportation, etc. are all designed around the assumption that you have a smartphone. Social interaction, even if you're a grown-up, revolves around the smartphone. You need a messaging app to communicate with anyone. You're expected to have a phone camera on hand to document social events to prove that they happened. You can't even go on a date anymore without submitting a photo gallery of your everyday life beforehand, like you're listing yourself for sale on eBay.
I'm so sick of it all. It's not enough to get rid of my own smartphone, I want to live in a world where smartphones aren't necessary at all and where I don't have to deal with their side effects. That's the one thing I miss the most when I think about life in previous generations.

but don't you love the CONVENIENCE of going online to download a spyware-ridden, barely functional app written by pajeets in 12 hours for the ability to park your car (after you spend 15 minutes creating an account, of course. Don't forget to opt in to marketing emails!)?

There's nothing inherently wrong with smartphones in concept. When they were originally pitched to us it was as productivity devices, and for things like managing appointments, calendars and event notifications, and communicating, they do a fantastic job. It's just that 99% of what they have been adapted for is junk, and the mindset has changed from productivity tools to fuck-around devices.

This isn't a problem with smartphones, though. It's a human problem. Any society without them will still find plenty of ways to waste time and resources and make their own lives less convenient, smartphones just facilitate this very effectively.

 

[Nori Dee]

I really wanted to work as an architect and product designer as a kid. The problem is... to make the looks and products I like and admire I would need to be born earlier in the 20th century or perhaps even at the end of the 19th.

There was more room for the human element.

 

[Some_porcupine]

There's nothing inherently wrong with smartphones in concept. When they were originally pitched to us it was as productivity devices, and for things like managing appointments, calendars and event notifications, and communicating, they do a fantastic job. It's just that 99% of what they have been adapted for is junk, and the mindset has changed from productivity tools to fuck-around devices.

man, you want that IBM Simon notepad from Mac...

First Smartphone Turns 20: Fun Facts About Simon

It packed a touchscreen, email capability and more, paving the way for our modern-day wondergadgets.

time.com

 

[mesaprotector]

The arrow of time means that each succeeding generation has the privilege and the pain of feeling the beautiful days of the past fade from memory, and the strange new world of the future come into view. It wasn't always this way, but it's been so for a long, long time. Time used to be cyclical, and still is so for the remaining primitive peoples in the Amazon and New Guinea. You did as your parents did, as your grandparents did, each of you finding your way along the same trail. Ever since the world started spinning faster there often is no trail, or newly-hacked deer paths through bushes and over mountains that might or might not lead to a destination you want to reach.

Platitudes aside, I can't say I mind having been born in the 1990s. I was just early enough to have a childhood mostly disconnected from the internet, and late enough that I'm seeing the new world it brings. If there's anything I missed out on, it was being an explorer and mapping out the uncharted.

 

[Boxerdog]

I want to be a cowboy or a 1980s phreaker would be cool too