Which time is a more appropriate comparion to now?

Medieval - what with the crusades and peasants

Wild west - where the Sherrifs have little real control and law is mere suggestion

Late 19th/early 20th century - with the snake-oil salesmen and yellow journalism and corruption

Prohibition - the gangs run things, and the government only feeds into their power and violence

Nazi Germany - the people are the pawns of those who run them

Communist Russia - disinformation seeded into the common thought causes controlled chaos

or pick your own

 

I wish it was like the wild west.

I'd say we are close to communist Russia, if not heading in that direction.

 

Nazi Germany was actually very good for the people under their command compared to the rest of the world.

If only Hitler wasn't such a bag of asses.

But to answer the question I think our civilization is teetering on a knife. We'll either advance to something truly incredible (to our eyes at least) or end it in a war about who's got the bigger dick.

 

Industrial Revolution

 

the era of biased polls

 

What's so biased about it? There is a 'none of these' option.

It's just that in the 90s, it seemed as if so much of this craziness was past us, and left in the history books. And now, as things get crazier and crazier I always see things that make me think of past atrocities repeating; and everyone forgetting they aren't original.

If that sentence was clear at all.