Which era do you think was most normal?

Isn't everybody just going to pick a time when they were young and perhaps more naive? I think people's answers will be personal to them, rather than a considered judgement of the world and its history.

I could be wrong, but that's certainly how I'd have answered before I considered why I was going to answer how I was.

No such thing as a normal era.

I'd say the prehistoric era. Running around naked, being able to sleep with anyone without feeling any moral constraints,... seems about normal. There weren't such severe social standards as we have now.

Isn't normality something that has to be defined by the cultural context it's in? And isn't cultural context defined by the era? Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I find it hard to give an answer. Maybe that's because I've not lived in a very wide variety of eras :P Anyway, I think that all eras were very normal when they were happening. I think the present day is most normal... in fact, I'll revise that. The times just previous to the international economic recession were the most normal. It changed the whole way people lived, what they spent money on, how they perceived money, which is the fuel for all society stuff :P I think of that as the most important moment of social change I've lived through, and I can hardly judge a time I've not lived through without researching it. The economic crisis started in 2008, so I'll vote at 2004 - 2009.

EDIT: Huh, I guess I've seen the return of the infamous block paragraph to my answer XD

i'll have to go with about 800 BC. to about 27 BC.
Sorry for breaking the time span covered by your poll, but non of those times feel "normal". Both modern age politics, financial systems, and moral/law systems are perversions of the intents with roots in the era i choose(classical greece until end of roman republic...i did not extend it into the principat era because i refuse to get modern religion into this :P)

the late 90s was cool but it wasn't all rainbows and butterflies. there is this rose tinted lens called nostalgia.

I wanna live in the 50's

Never! Was never normal...

The 1960's. Many good things happened in the 60's, but I'm mostly referring to the British 60's.

There were "eccentric fashions" in the 90's.

I would also say ancient civilizations, but they're shrouded in mystery and what's known brings up more mysteries. However, allot of their laws are used in modern society, but its been twisted around put under a new light.

The 1950s America. Everyone lived in suburbs, had a car, two kids, a television, a dog, and went to church.

Cenozoic era

I think that every era had particular abnormalities. I find it very hard to pin down the era that was the most normal, because normal is subject to personal opinion.

This is impossible to answer. They are all normal and abnormal in their own right. Your comparing apples to oranges.

I think most people will answer this from a personal point of view. So most likely you will get biased answers.

I think the most "normal" was when God first created us. That was the way we were meant to be, and now we're so far gone.