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What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?

Time is really only a way of perceiving things, a way of differentiating or delineating the space between events.  Just as you can zoom in or out on the graph of a cyclic wave, so too, is the matter of time a matter of perception based around loose concepts like the length of an average day's available sunlight and the convenience of being able to divide those hours by numbers like two, three, and four.  I think I have met only two people who could survive being transplanted in another time.  Usually those who seem to lament about living in the past seem the least likely to make it.  You can wax poetic about the past, but it's taken us this long to think that maybe concepts like racism aren't such a good thing.  It's taken us this long to begin to question the idea of dying for nationalism.  Most people today can't survive without air conditioning and refrigeration or fast food.  People watch videos on their mobiles to keep from getting bored.  Time is irrelevant.