The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Which would you rather do? Go back 100 years with the knowledge you have….or….go in the future 100 years knowing you’ll be behind the times 100 years. Tell us why you chose the one you did.
Talk about it.
Assuming I get to live a full life, back 100 years to a how a country worked in a simpler time. Where church going neighbors took care of each other, where power mad politicians didn’t intrude into every aspect of our lives. A time when people talked with each other and a time where education didn’t include indoctrination.
100 years ago any teacher teaching pronoun garbage or anything more than man – woman would be out of a job and likely run out of town. A time when learning job skills was taken seriously because there was no nanny state welfare teat to suckle at.
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How many students, or teachers for that matter, could pass this test ? ?
“Could You Pass This Eighth-Grade Exam From 1912?”
https://tinyurl.com/26xrmtht
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Some of those questions reminded me of some of the crazy questions that we saw when “Common Core” was forced on us.
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At the time of that test and for many decades afterwards, in many parts of the world, most students didn’t go to school past the 8th grade. As an example, in Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler’s leadership, most kids only went to school thru the 8th grade, up to the age of 14, as was the case for the majority of German youths under the Weimar Republic, German Empire, North German Confederation, and the German Confederation, which came before Nazi Germany. The difference was that Hitler had a program for students once they passed the 8th grade, where these 14 year old males and females were sent to live with another family in a different part of Germany for one year, where they would learn a trade. How many 14 year olds in 2024 America do you believe would have the maturity to be sent to live with an unknown family, in another part of their state or another part of the US, to learn a trade that was chosen for them by the government? I don’t think many would have the maturity to do so, or be able to complete the one year program.
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Unfortunately, I believe our education system has declined in quality, where American 14 year old 8th grade graduates in 1912 were probably better educated than many, if not most, American 14 year old 8th grade graduates in 2024.
Go back to the Roaring 20s. The carefree lifestyle of the sexy flappers, and cruising around in a brand-new Model A Ford. The economy was doing great, and nearly every urban household had indoor toilets, a new washing machine, refrigerator, radio, and phonograph. It was so good, they even went out and bought one of those newfangled vacuum cleaners. I would be able to experience what life was like for my grandparents, but most of what I know now, I would keep to myself, because no one would believe me.
%80 -90 of the country could read during that time
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Go in the future if I could return to present day…. see how bad things got (or good) then return to try and convince leaders of needed changes…. I’d prefer to forget about much of my families past….
Going back 100 years would suit me, … the way of life, the simplicity, … would be enjoyable.
Give me some piece of mind from the how bad things have gone downhill in the last 3-4 years.
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Go back.
Potentially stop Great Depression, WWII, and several others.
Nah, I’d probably be lobotomized.
Nah…. “The Butterfly Effect” would get us all!
Going to the future so I can enjoy riding the CA high speed train. I hope that there will be self driving cars by then. And all the tasks are fully automated so that human are free from work to pursue happiness.
Then you woke up
Free from work to pursue diabetes; that doesn’t sound like much of a future.
You’ve overplayed your hand, Paul. Not even the most extreme left progressive consistently expresses views as obtuse as those you leave here. You’re a troll and you know it.
Paul is an “Eloi Democrat”
In 100 years there will be no life in earth that was born here
I’d take my chances with the future. As an engineer, it would be very interesting to see the technology in the future. Then there’s the vision of the future in the Woody Allen movie “Sleeper.” However, the orgasmatron would be interesting……
I loved that movie. Loved how they said everything we thought was bad for you, in terms of food, was now good for you. Other gems as well.
I’d prefer to go back, but I’d like to go back further than 100 years, somewhere between the years 1770 – 1885.
I’d rather go 100 years forward to see if those 100% life like super model robot chicks are available yet.
I’ll invest a pile of money in some likely stocks before I go and hopefully be a bizillionaire when I arrive.
Go back to 1 million years ago
Probably back. I got a taste of a simple life with my grandparents as a child. I will spent summer vacation with them and helped grandma with the chores. They had no electricity but made their own lamps by putting gas inside a glass bottle, then a piece of cloth will run all the way down..voila you had light. They had no running water, but had a natural spring water hole about 12″ diameter and water will run down and create a small creek.
They had no painted concrete or stucco walls but had made all their adobe tiles and built the house from scratch, floor was all dirt. My grandpa had land and harvest everything and exchange some of his vegatables for meat or dairy if needed. I helped collect eggs from the chickens, carry water from the creek, helped make brooms from these grassy tall bush, wash clothes on the big flat rock my grandpa put next to the creek, collect fruits from the trees around the house, gather wood for the outdoor stove and even collected olives so my grandma could make soap…etc etc. Truly amazing times. This was about 40 years ago…imagine if I went 100 to the same area..