Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Re-enacting in the future.

As many of you know, I and my friends and family are involved in historical re-enacting. We find it educational, challenging and fun. And for the most part, we focus on the daily aspects of life in the time periods we set our re-enacted personas in. Today, while driving to work, I noticed a skateboarder zipping down the block and thought to myself, "Two-hundred years from now, will anybody re-enact the late 20th and early 21st century?" If if they do, will they get it right? Do you think there will be skateboarding re-enactors? Will they have replica cell phones that they will spend their time on? What about laptops? Just what would future re-enactors do if they decided to revisit our time period? Will they focus mainly on the military events of the time, like most re-enactment groups do, or will there be some focus on the civilian population like some groups are doing now? Many re-enactment groups are forming civilian representations rather than focusing on just the military. Who knows. It was just something I was thinking about. Is there anything worth re-enacting in the late 20th and early 21st century?

Later!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People playing video games?