Here is a slightly more philosophical question. I know this is a primarily political community but please do bear with me if you like. What would happen if we could arbitrarily and without hindrances travel back and forth in time, to whichever "point" in time we wanted, and change past and future events in a way that would prevent the occurrence of
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Utopias are bound to fail because they rely on fundamentally imperfect and dystopian building blocks, humans.
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Vote Hal-3000!
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I was going to add that a population such as this is ripe for getting behind causes, both asinine (tea party) and noble.
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I wrote a review of this book some time ago here
http://russj.livejournal.com/16276.html
In that book, an intervention was planned to oppose the practice of slavery. In the process, it was found that slavery was tolerated as a lesser evil, resulting from a previous 'time-travel intervention' which opposed the evil of human sacrifice.
Although I have to say that Asimov's novel is a better read--one of the all time sci-fi greats.
In Asimov's book, the numerous interventions conducted by Eternity to eliminate risk, resulted in the stagnation of the human race, compared to other competing civilizations.
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I'm just fantasizing! :)
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