Adventure

[green]

ok so i have a few questions to ask of you but first some back story. Im really into the kinda old medievil and rural japan kind of thing like you see in movies. You know where you could just leave and live of the land and it didnt matter if you had no money cause you could just secure some kind of weapon and just travel and hunt for your food. I just kinda wish that there would be somekind of apocalypse or global warming shinanigan that would cause all electricity to short circuit and we kinda of left our cities and knocked down buildings and just went into an old fashioned lifestyle. People say that technology is bad for you so why not? I mean I would be able to adjust. The reason i have such an addiction to tech is because if I dont have it I have nothing to do. I mean I cant just go outside and search around and leave home at 18 and just live of the land cause half the land in the world that is inhabitable is either government owned or privately owned. If it wasnt like that I would be smashing my laptop, my ipod, tv and everything else and just spend my time wandering. So heres the question. Would you ever want to go back to this kind of world and give up technology? Also would you like things to be more old fashioned? cheers guys

[Azunite]

Yeah I know feudal japan from Kessen games and It is quite good.
But I would prefer Ottoman era :)

[Sage]

Im really into the kinda old medievil and rural japan kind of thing like you see in movies.

The medieval and feudal eras portrayed in movies never happened. They are what we call romanticized ideals.

[Amnesiac]

ok so i have a few questions to ask of you but first some back story. Im really into the kinda old medievil and rural japan kind of thing like you see in movies. You know where you could just leave and live of the land and it didnt matter if you had no money cause you could just secure some kind of weapon and just travel and hunt for your food. I just kinda wish that there would be somekind of apocalypse or global warming shinanigan that would cause all electricity to short circuit and we kinda of left our cities and knocked down buildings and just went into an old fashioned lifestyle. People say that technology is bad for you so why not? I mean I would be able to adjust. The reason i have such an addiction to tech is because if I dont have it I have nothing to do. I mean I cant just go outside and search around and leave home at 18 and just live of the land cause half the land in the world that is inhabitable is either government owned or privately owned. If it wasnt like that I would be smashing my laptop, my ipod, tv and everything else and just spend my time wandering. So heres the question. Would you ever want to go back to this kind of world and give up technology? Also would you like things to be more old fashioned? cheers guys

No, I wouldn't want to live in a less technological world. I don't see why anyone would want to give up the benefits of modernized society, all that prosperity and knowledge. If you want to live like the Amish, I have nothing against you, but I would never hope for the rest of humanity to be affected by a natural disaster that destroys our current way of life.

Technology isn't bad, it's good, and the people who say it's bad are stubborn and refuse to adapt to it.

[Magus]

I prefer living in a high-industrial jungle rather than in a peaceful grassland plains or an ergonomic, perfect, blissful utopian city.

The smell of gases coming out from the car exhausts, the plastic's translucent sheen, the taste of metal, the texture of grease, the sound of rambling machines. Gas flare towers at every peripherals, Acid rains raining every 5 P.M, metallic Mega-structures and buildings, concrete+concrete.

Man, just imagining that gives me the orgasm. All we need is that Mega-corporations and Heavy Industries leading the land, leaving the country governments puppet-less.

[Nexus]

I personally wouldn't wish for the displacement of billions of others just to fulfill a fantasy of mine.

It's a fun thing to wrap your head around, but surely unrealistic.

[Sith Lord 13]

but surely unrealistic.

Not as unrealistic as you think. If AIDS goes airborne, or Any of a half million other diseases change just a little bit, it could wipe out a majority of human life on earth.

[Nexus]

Not as unrealistic as you think. If AIDS goes airborne, or Any of a half million other diseases change just a little bit, it could wipe out a majority of human life on earth.

There's countless far fetched possibilities that could wipe out humanity. All the buzz over the avian bird flu spawned a made-for-tv movie and a handful of websites selling epidemic safety equipment.

You can be paranoid all you would like about some impending doomsday, but most would rather live their lives without fear of an uncertain undoing.

[Sith Lord 13]

]but most would rather live their lives without fear of an uncertain undoing.

I didn't say to live in fear. Just that there are possibilities. You don't think about them everyday, just when the occasion comes up for discussions like this.

[Nexus]

In fact you stated that it isn't unrealistic. The airborne transmission of aids, especially with all of the health measures employed by various countries, make it highly unlikely that the disease will ever make it that far, which renders your point another house of cards as far as doomsday theories are concerned.

[Sith Lord 13]

In fact you stated that it isn't unrealistic. The airborne transmission of aids, especially with all of the health measures employed by various countries, make it highly unlikely that the disease will ever make it that far, which renders your point another house of cards as far as doomsday theories are concerned.

What measures do we have if AIDS makes the jump to airborne transmission?

[Nexus]

The measures I'm referring have to do with foreigners coming here or to other highly industrialized nations. The point is to never let it get far enough for a unmaintainable outbreak, which so far has proved successful.

Had you brought this up in the '80s when HIV and AIDS were a lot more rampant in the country, I probably wouldn't disagree with you. But there's been a sharp decline here in the states and I don't see it as a major threat to humanity.

A slight influx in motor vehicle collisions, heart disease and breast cancer have a better chance of wiping out scores of people than AIDS does.

[Disco Jones]

You can still be a traveler and live off the land if you really want to, it's not an easy life but it never was except in fiction.

[Sith Lord 13]

AIDS has too long an incubation period. No way to defend against it if it mutates here in the states. If it mutates in a first world country, we're all fucked.