I WONDER

There has been a recent trend on TV, in the movies, and in many books, novels as well as scientific ponderings, all re time travel. It is a topic which has engaged humanity and inquiring minds and has become ever so much more popular and prominent these days. It makes one wonder, especially as the possibility is edging from the category of science fantasy to science fiction and from there who knows? It is actually not unthinkable these days to ponder the possibilities of time travel.

In fact, indulging in a bit of what if, I really do wonder if certain scenarios ever came to pass, how would we have gotten there and what would be forthcoming? Would the future - or the past, for that matter, be very different? How far afield would the changes take effect, and would humanity then be engaged in global warfare with nation v. nation, who could or would or should capture the power and control of time variations? 

Would humanity succumb to the temptations of controlling humanity, its past, present and future, changing the world in so many different ways we cannot even begin to fathom what the outcome, the consequences would be? Dare we hope that humankind could avoid the temptations of power and wealth and unique control, to hold dominion over the rest of the world? Or will it be the opposite? Will humanity learn how to control the power of time travel and use it in beneficial ways for all? How would that be done? Would we go into the past and eliminate those dictators, the tyrants of history who created ugly times for the world or would some enhance their powers in order to facilitate some nefarious plan of wannabe masters of the Earth?   

 Would the people of the world demand that its governing class eliminate all that was evil? Would it be demanded of them to disappear the worst times of humanity? But think ahead or back to the past as to the consequences of changing time. Would killing the newborn baby Hitler have prevented the horror of the Holocaust and the millions of the dead of World War II or would we have reached a similar era via a differing set of humankind? Might it even be worse? Will the innate seemingly endless attraction of evil and its power always engage mankind, thus simply repeating its errors with similar results?   

Now think of another scenario. Could it be that mankind already has this power? Might we be living merely in one version of it? All the possibilities contained within an impossible to penetrate lab where scientists play the possibilities? Hundreds and hundreds of screens, all displaying a different scenario, the scientists peering into all these futures and all the changed pasts. Delving deep into possibilities and finding what, exactly?

 The same but different? The same but hopeful? Or one precious screen never straying from the proper direction, advancing, developing, becoming the creatures our G-d had always envisioned? Even in that advanced world giving hope to the scientists of a future world of grace and benefit, would there be the inevitable distorting fly in the mix? Would there be those who, like the builders of the Tower of Babel, grow over proud, reek of hubris, and attempt to challenge G-d? Daring, demanding, to become more than human. Demanding to be as the Angels. Then the inevitable smackdown of humanity and poof! Here we go again.   

Think about it, wonder about if we indeed had the power to change the past, to fix the present, would we, in fact, do so; or would we maneuver and fiddle and finagle and arrive back where we began? At this point in time, I am not sure if humanity is worthy of the plea of Abraham to not destroy the cities rife with sin for the sake of the good contained within. There were not enough of those then and I wonder, are there enough of them today? We are so deep in the muck, up to our necks, in the filth of hate, of anger, of greed, even of desire to hurt and dominate. Ruled too many times by those who have not a scintilla of decency within and worse, the multitudes of humanity who go along, with enthusiasm or with apathy, the end results the same. Would the power to change time, to time travel, actually make a difference? Even in the best of times should we actually reach the achievement of the creation of a world where goodness and generosity, peace and prosperity reigned, would we allow it to be thus? Or would we inevitably sabotage it? Is humanity even capable of becoming a truly advanced society with none of the hate, none of the evil, none of the woes that have plagued us and maintain it? 

That would be, in my opinion, a great big no. One cannot page the tomes of history and find such a time that would at least give us a glimmer of hope that someday we might fully achieve that goal. And keep it, its permanent viability.  I highly doubt it.

There is nothing within our many yesterdays to indicate such a possibility.

Certainly, our todays and the evidence laid out before us do not generate optimism.     

For sure our tomorrows are splayed out before us. We must choose. And choose correctly.

Can we? Is that possibility still viable?

I wonder ...