Liberty, thanks for the offer, but I am (hopefully) just passing through this worldline. Hopefully your worldline turns out better, so please use your militia at your own discretion. Remember that although sometimes necessary, it can be impossible to rationalize away someone's death; justifiable, but not rationalizable. Remember that when hard times come that you must remain cautious and awake to the world. Pray that you will never need to know violence, but be ready for the day that it comes to your doorstep. You, my worldline's version of you anyway, may have been part of our original revolution and maybe still apart of it, but I thank you for striving for sentient freedom.
Samstwitch, were you familiar to the origins of Independence Day at age 19? Holidays tend to be remembered. As I said, most of my knowledge of history from this time I gathered from stories from those around me. The revolution needs steam to run on. Whoever controls the present, controls the past. Whoever controls the past, controls the future. We have to remember our struggle and the struggle of those before us. We learn their mistakes. We celebrate their victories. I remember the date 18/3/19, specifically, because I hate it so much. It's a holiday where everyone celebrates the revolution's defeat and where passion are restored for the hunt for terrorist, criminal scum. As for the 19 year olds of your time. they certainly are dumbed down and they probably are apathetic too. I had a need to learn these events and I did. Doesn't every kid want to know about their parents? their heritage? I was raised by a movement, one that kept me in a state of danger. I had to reach out and understand that. It was necessary for my survival to understand my past. Beyond that though, even where I don't have the dates or even an events exact place within the sequence of events, I have plenty of resources at my disposal to help me place the events I learned about. For example: I knew of Obama's resignation, but I don't know quite when it happens. I then gaze upon the net and see that the most sensible time is 2015. I have now made sense of my learnings and have attempted to sort out the proper chronology in my head. It really isn't a difficult process, just a bit of problem solving skills.
You are quite right that I am under prepared. I did not get linguistics training. I did not have much access to 1840's historical records; a destination considered hastily. And this has been my only trip through time. We had no idea what the effects of time travel would be on me physically or psychologically. My first trip was sedated because we feared that my psyche could not withstand the effects of time travel. Yes, I am 19. I am young, but please don't hold that against me. You might be surprised at how low the expectancy rate for long life is in the revolution. Hell, I don't even know what it is, but I've seen kids be shot in cold blood. But one thing is that youth tend to adaptable. That is necessary for my journey. If nothing else, I have that. And here I am in 2013 on the wrong worldline. It seems I really am just barely undertaking a trial and error process. Even if I am just Dr. H.'s time traveling lab rat, I would accept that position wholeheartedly because I know that my efforts may someday send send someone else to complete the mission. But I choose to believe that my mission isn't bogus and that it is needed to be done. Therefore I will put all my effort into accomplishing it. And I choose to believe that no matter what, what I do is not in vain. What I do is for the revolution.
Could time travel really be invented in six years by a small group of people who lack resources? Titor had the advantage of having teams of experts and professionals and training. And I am sure that it expedited their progress. The science however is the same. Don't most scientific revolutions start with the birth of a genius? Maybe Dr. H. is that genius and maybe he died in Titor's Nuclear War. Maybe John Titor's machine is based off the early work of his worldline's Dr. H. I can't answer all the questions involved there, but the science remains the same.
No offense taken. I really enjoy your questions. They help me think through my life.
And I really hope your sentiments with Rand are correct. If he runs for president, please don't let my words discourage your vote.
White Death, yes they are curious. They wanted more money because they thought it was drug related. I smiled, I assured them it wasn't, talked a bit about family values, and offered them a reasonable price, insisted upon it really. But we got to a reasonable deal.
Frog, I don't know what the weird mist could be.
1. Yes, but think along the lines of augmented reality. Computers are basically built into everything. The elite control the augmented reality fairly well and it creates a fantasy for their victims. People are unaware of the genocide under their noses.
2. You already know of augmented reality, ansibles, and time travel. On top of that, there are the enslaved sentients, the descendants of Metis. Light weapons exist. There have been plenty of medical achievements. Mars colonization. Hydrogen/oxygen powered spaceplanes. Plenty of other space related inventions. DNA based computers. Chimeras. Stealth technologies. A lot of stuff. It's hard to try to list the advancements we have had.
3. Yes they do. Libraries aren't quite the same though. A lot of it is computerized. Some of the elites still have large printed book collections, you can still find books if you look for them.
Its not a bother.
Ann Holt,
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