21st century ... doesn't do it for me. I gravitate towards early 20th century thinking and experiences.. I'm fascinated by what Getrude Stein called The Lost Generation. Life was different then. Not without it's problems, as a matter of fact in the first 20 years of the century, the world suffered horribly under it's own pandemic. It killed many millions, this coming after what they called the Great War (World War 1 for us) in which millions more perished. Coming out of those events the depression brought world economies to their knees. An entire generation lost everything including any chance of dreaming of a better future. And yet, I feel an affinity for that period in history. Was it better? Demonstrably NO. Different though. People learned to adjust and to get by. Doing without in ways we can hardly imagine today. It was an important period. Absent was the spoiled self centered persons who inherit this new millennium.
My heroes from those years. The Hemingway's, The F Scott Fitzgerald's, Smart, brilliant, able to explain about what was going on in their writings. Each totally screwed up, eventually succumbing to the times in which they lived. Still, to me, fascinating.
I wish I could have been there. Lived it. All of it. 21st Century ... does not do it for me.
Fantasies of life ..simpler ... to dream about .