The really hard problems, the problems adults face that require one to be adult to face square on, those problems have no solution that doesn't require deep compromise and loss no matter what the action taken; and furthermore, the status quo cannot be maintained. Pain is inescapable, and moral compromise cannot be avoided. In the Oedipal dilemma Oedipus pursues the truth in spite of being warned not to. The truth he uncovers changes his situation, his past and his future--action is required. It is the knowledge that cannot be ignored. There is the difficult, there is the most difficult, and there is the terrible.Just think for only one second; being able to master time travel we could fix our past mistakes. We could get rid of this pandemic just for a start.
Am I unrealistic, or are we simply not advanced enough, or both?
The really hard problems, the problems adults face that require one to be adult to face square on, those problems have no solution that doesn't require deep compromise and loss no matter what the action taken; and furthermore, the status quo cannot be maintained. Pain is inescapable, and moral compromise cannot be avoided. In the Oedipal dilemma Oedipus pursues the truth in spite of being warned not to. The truth he uncovers changes his situation, his past and his future--action is required. It is the knowledge that cannot be ignored. There is the difficult, there is the most difficult, and there is the terrible.
Time Travel
It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.I hate time travel.
If only we couldgo back in time andlearn from the good lessons that would be a good start.
One person's mistake is another person's success. I know folks who would go back and make sure Trump doesn't get elected, and others who would go back 8 more years to make sure Obama doesn't get elected. And I'm not even talking about Dubya, or Clinton. Or the failed Austrian landscape painter (appreciate how I got around Godwin ). There might be a couple of movies in this.Just think for only one second; being able to master time travel we could fix our past mistakes. We could get rid of this pandemic just for a start.
If time travel is possible, the causal loops created will somehow have to resolve themselves without paradoxes. The fact that the pandemic is happening proves that nobody will ever go back in time and stop it. That does not, however, preclude the possibility that someone is going to have travelled (is that the correct tense?) back to prevent it getting worse than it is. Without anyone in our current past noticing, obviously.Just think for only one second; being able to master time travel we could fix our past mistakes. We could get rid of this pandemic just for a start.
Am I unrealistic, or are we simply not advanced enough, or both?
Why would somone stop it anyway? "Tis bearly a scratch"If time travel is possible, the causal loops created will somehow have to resolve themselves without paradoxes. The fact that the pandemic is happening proves that nobody will ever go back in time and stop it. That does not, however, preclude the possibility that someone is going to have travelled (is that the correct tense?) back to prevent it getting worse than it is. Without anyone in our current past noticing, obviously.
Are lock-ins a form of time travel?Time travel would make last orders at the bar less of a issue .