Born too late to be an uptight Babylonian priest, born too soon to explore the stars, born just in time to be mentally ill and die in the climate apocalypse
"Stop romanticizing the past, you don't actually want to live in a time before antibiotics and modern medicine"
Alright. I die of a preventable infection at 45 while living in a hovel in Babylon circa 1870 BCE and in exchange the phrases social media and mid-size SUV mean nothing to me. These terms are acceptable
It should be noted that I don't mean this in a "anti-civ eugenicist" way, but more in a "I'm bitter and want off this ride" kind of way
Bringing a scholar from Babylon to the current era and hearing nothing but screaming until they die of absolute terror at everything
Ehh, it depends. Having given this some serious thought, I don't actually want to live in any time or place where patriarchy's the norm, capitalism or no capitalism.
Luckily, there's deffo times and places where neither exist, though sometimes one might have to turn the clock earlier still.
Aha! You say that now, but your treatment at the hand of the copper merchant Ea-Nasir will make you rue the day you stepped into that time machine!
The last time you started speculating along these lines the result was a multiple-award-winning historical fiction anthology, so I'm listening...
