I'm going to a good place. It's called 'the past'.
It's terrific there. All those trends that are making society so dire are in glorious reverse. Oh, I really recommend it. If you're fed up with all this 'dumbing down', journey into the past and thrill as things get smartened up again. Fed up with rising prices? Well, the further you travel into the past, the cheaper everything gets!
Everything in the past feels so much more solid.
And, by its very nature, it's fantastically safe. It's invulnerable, and totally unthreatening.
And when it looks unpleasant, as, to be honest, it does on occasion, you can feel smug about the fact that you don't actually live there, you're just visiting.
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A sojourn back in time is not for me, the only way I keep sane(ish) is to keep moving forward.
Lillipilli: I take my hat off to you.
You live on the other side of the world from me, so if you go forwards and I go backwards we may one day bump into each other.
I love a functioning time machine and I am forever grateful that I was born into an age when they exist.
It's a comforting place to visit sometimes, and a useful one. And I think people have to delve backwards sometimes in order to go forwards - like, it's quite necessary to life, imho.
But yes - wouldn't want to live there.
in the words of grant morrison, "i always forget how terrible the past smells". the food's not bad, tho.
Paul: Yes, the time machines in the olden days were pretty dreadful, weren't they? You'd sit in them for a fortnight and they'd go back in time about half an hour.
Roberta: Thank you for your interesting comments. I think sometimes I delve forwards in order to go backwards.
Jason: Yes indeed, especially bread and butter pudding.
Would you be going back into your past as current you or regressing as past you?
Also, I'd miss my mobile phone too much. How did we live without phones that sent text messages and took photos?
Lee: The latter would be interesting when I got beyond my birth, wouldn't it?
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