Chan Wei Lik wrote:
From:Dragoon [dragoonak@earthlink.net]
How would someone born in 1980s deal with the 22nd century?
The same way an immortal born 400 years ago would deal with the 20th century.
If you lived through all those years, you'd be familliar with the world of that
time. Not like someone from the 20th century who's been abruptly dropped into
the future.
I disagree, we live in a century where change occurs nearly everyday, it
is something we are familiar with because its what we grow up with. In
fact we would be more apt to deal with future events better than someone
from the past being dropped into our present. We live with change, we
grew up with change they age was more stable they grew up accepting
certain ideas as truths. Most of who we are is embedded into ourselves
early in our lives, its who we are and changing it is almost impossible.
Its like Interview with a Vampire, most of the older vampires in the
story couldn't deal with new world but vampires like Lestat and Louis
were more able to accept changes because of when they were born.
--Eric