You cannot change history, you can only change the future...............
Time is a human construct to put events in an understandable order. There is not past and no future. There is only now, the past is a memory, electrical impulses stored in the brain and the future is imagination, ideas we create out of now and memory.
...I’d hit fast-forward.
The past is read only. However, given the opportunity, I just might create many alternate timelines.
Old Brooklyn joke:
Premise:
a.) It’s 1938.
b.) You’re in a closed room with Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O’Malley.
c.) You have gun and two bullets.
Question:
What course of action do you take?
Correct answer:
Shoot O’Malley twice.
I would go back to when I first became aware, find myself, and explain a few things.
They Nazis realized they could not give orders on every single detail needed to re-order society, so they created the idea of "Führerprinzip," and all members of society were expected to put these into practice through "Working Towards the Führer."
Marty: Then where the hell are they?!
Doc: The appropriate question is, "When the hell are they?" You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler!
If I had a time machine I’d go back to 1932 and make sure Giuseppe Zangara’s succeeded in his attempt to assassinate FDR. No New Deal, no Deep State, no deficit spending, no government overreach.
Time travel isn’t possible. I know this is all theoretical, but I’ve already worked it out in my head in a LOT of mental scenarios.
The first question is whether you’d retain all of the knowledge that you have now. Of course, you could not have knowledge of something that didn’t happen unless there were some strict “destiny” that isn’t alterable, which is a horrifying prospect. (I’m looking at you, Calvinists.)
The second issue is that future knowledge would do you no good if retroactive decisions you made in the past change the future.
There are some modern philosophers who logically posit that the past doesn’t even exist.
Still a fun exercise.
I’ve always said that you would need to bypass Hitler and go right to the root of the problem. Kill Karl Marx.
We aren’t done with the attempts on Trump’s life.
<><>The marching orders have been given
<><>more “lone actors” will continue to surface
<><>they consider assassinating Trump to be the highest calling of their generation.
<><>The MSM and our tax-paid govt agencies will feign ignorance as they fan the flames.
I’d go back and date Brenda in high school. She had a crush on me. I wasn’t interested because she wore coke bottle glasses and her chest was too large for her body.
Now I know how she turns out and it’s pretty good.
If I did that, I’d be at least 3 times her age, and she would be underage. So that probably wouldn’t turn out well.
Maybe I should just focus on winning lottery tickets.
The Bolsheiks, all of them, and all of the National Socialist “leadership” of their thugocracy. The common thread for both systems is world Socialism. Socialism is theft, and antithetical to human need to strive for success and survival. Against all human nature.
Look at the cost, historically to the world of Communism-in excess of 100 million killed. The Black Book of Communism is quite a documented read.
Provided I wasn’t alone and unarmed, I’d opt for the Stone Age. Help get things up and running.
Or, take along a big ole copier and head for Alexandria library in its heyday.
Wouldn’t mind seeing the pyramids when they were going up.
If the time machine can’t be trusted...guess I’ll go with America circa 1950’s. The folks recommend it highly. If I got stuck there it would have some consolations.
Gainesville to stop UF from hiring Billy Napier.
I would prevent the sinking of the titanic; but, only to prevent that horrible Celine Dion song!
Take out Vienna. At the right time, you can wipe out Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.
Two assassination attempts, two assassins.
BOTH have appeared in Blackrock Commercials.
Coincidence?