Please friends, 'scuse this topic if ye see it as a dark light.
As most of ye know, centuries ago the world was different: across Europe was a land no one knew too much about. Places on the other side of the globe had only started to be colonized. The only real means of travel to the new world were by boat. This led to the golden age of piracy as the mother country tried to keep in touch with her colonies.
But this is something ye already knew.
Then came the trains, the cars, the planes, and the just newly discovered space travel. Along side that, we can talk to people halfway across the world in seconds. I can turn on my TV and find out if there's a fashion show in Paris (or something else like that) - hell, I could be there within a day. With this new age of technology, many things have been swept aside: most of the countries of the world have lost their own cultures, beliefs, and even religions. The japanese learned this very quickly when we stormed into Tokyo bay - they were still following samurai codes at the time. Now there's nothing that will stop them from going back. The same happened with the whole of Europe. At one point almost every country in Europe had a different Religion - the Scandinavians with their Norse gods, the English and Celtics with their Celtic gods, Greece, Gaul, Rome, Prussia, and any other country you can think of. Like I said though, this new world has brought us much closer and any old religion is now just folktale and nothing more.
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This new world has not already swept away the unique-ness of countries, but professions and jobs too: one of them was being a pirate, and here's where the point of this resides. Many people have seen the movie Pirates of The Carribean and know that there are no more pirates today - even if one wanted to go out and live like a pirate, the closest they could get would be hired by Disney or work at a fair. Sure some could have their costumes on and work at fairs and gain money - but it's still a far life from boarding other ships and taking plunder. No more pirates exist, the "Pirate's Life" has vanished beneath the waves as iron-clad warships have taken over. And what has caused the change? Technology.
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Is there any way to still live as a pirate, in a wooden ship with flintlock pistol and cutlass at side? Surely many have said it's a long dead profession, but what do ye think?
