Well, several points could be addressed by your posting.
1) Yes, the people are dumb. For instance, you can not get into a fancy spacefighter and blast your way off this planet, nor time-travel except in the mind. These are just the facts that humans may never know everything, and still have thinking to do -- in the future.
However, there are people who think that their way is the only way, and appear to be close-minded, as well as open-minded people who's brains rather tend to fall out, but in the middle, the road less traveled, there are people indeed questioning all of it.
From Albert Einstein:
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Price Pritchett from "The Ethics of Excellence":
Permit mistakes so you don't promote cover-ups. Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes. Disallowing honest foul-ups has a way of forcing lies. People commit an ethical violation in an effort to cover their tracks. The result proves that ethical violations are self-reproducing. They feed on themselves.
The threat of disapproval and punishment for flawed behavior makes a person wish for an escape route. The idea of hiding mistakes is seductive, and the carrot of the cover-up dangles as an appealing solution. But the best approach is to level with others, to go public with what was done wrong.
Honesty saves energy and attention for fixing the problem, instead of spending it on hiding things. Plus, a cover-up just doubles a person's vulnerability - somebody still might discover the mistake, and also find one guilty of deception. Twice the trouble.
Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't.
From Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
http://www.coleenrowley.com/documents/Integrity-NASA.doc
Now the only reason I bring all of this up, is because as you get older, you will begin to have different views and different thoughts. And it all will be about history -- or the future -- depending on what is happening in the world today. However, the world can not be wished away, nor can it be moved out of its gravitational pull, because the Sun rules all the Planets with its own rules, rules we can not change -- as of yet!
Perhaps, you are thinking that other people will not do what you think (or are scared of actually like a lot of people) but it has been shown through history that it has all been done before. However, there is always still hope, or at least knowing enough to not engage in those type of activities and actually survive. This is not always easy, as much as going into SpaceTime is not easy either.
In Titor's mind, the same kind of thinking out of some people is that God does not care. What it does mean is that all people will have problems, and perhaps, stating problems is not the same as solving those problems.
1) Yes, the people are dumb. For instance, you can not get into a fancy spacefighter and blast your way off this planet, nor time-travel except in the mind. These are just the facts that humans may never know everything, and still have thinking to do -- in the future.
However, there are people who think that their way is the only way, and appear to be close-minded, as well as open-minded people who's brains rather tend to fall out, but in the middle, the road less traveled, there are people indeed questioning all of it.
From Albert Einstein:
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Price Pritchett from "The Ethics of Excellence":
Permit mistakes so you don't promote cover-ups. Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes. Disallowing honest foul-ups has a way of forcing lies. People commit an ethical violation in an effort to cover their tracks. The result proves that ethical violations are self-reproducing. They feed on themselves.
The threat of disapproval and punishment for flawed behavior makes a person wish for an escape route. The idea of hiding mistakes is seductive, and the carrot of the cover-up dangles as an appealing solution. But the best approach is to level with others, to go public with what was done wrong.
Honesty saves energy and attention for fixing the problem, instead of spending it on hiding things. Plus, a cover-up just doubles a person's vulnerability - somebody still might discover the mistake, and also find one guilty of deception. Twice the trouble.
Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't.
From Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
http://www.coleenrowley.com/documents/Integrity-NASA.doc
Now the only reason I bring all of this up, is because as you get older, you will begin to have different views and different thoughts. And it all will be about history -- or the future -- depending on what is happening in the world today. However, the world can not be wished away, nor can it be moved out of its gravitational pull, because the Sun rules all the Planets with its own rules, rules we can not change -- as of yet!
Perhaps, you are thinking that other people will not do what you think (or are scared of actually like a lot of people) but it has been shown through history that it has all been done before. However, there is always still hope, or at least knowing enough to not engage in those type of activities and actually survive. This is not always easy, as much as going into SpaceTime is not easy either.
In Titor's mind, the same kind of thinking out of some people is that God does not care. What it does mean is that all people will have problems, and perhaps, stating problems is not the same as solving those problems.
o you plan to do any more time traveling when you return to 2036?