young_Mr_Hawthorn
Lady Laura 
When people speak of traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present thinks they can radically change the future by doing something small.
Barbara R. Nelson
Jojo@cmconseils 100% agree with the sentiment. On the flip side, such power can be used for selfless acts - saving suicidal farmer, accident victims, meeting loved ones.
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@cmconseils i feel that they (and this toot) fail to understand Bradbury's _A Sound of Thunder_.
Rodrigo DiasSmall actions compound massively over time. It's a good reminder.
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.@rgo Every action, no matter what, has unpredictable effects over time. It's the unpredictability that's the key to the butterfly effect. Actions and reactions, zillions of them over time and space.
LonM@cmconseils changing the future is nice, and probably worthwhile, but what I really want is to be able to change the present with small actions in the present
Passwordsarehard4@LonM @cmconseils go out and live, that’s what does it.
ErnstGucker@cmconseils
Very good, very deep and very true.
Very good, very deep and very true.
@cmconseils damn, that's a good quote
Eggs now in different baskets.@cmconseils It would be great if I could boost this more than once.
It makes me think about this quote:
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
@cmconseils Corollary:
Maybe we are all afraid of making small changes in the present in case the future turns out to be even worse than we fear.
Daniel de Kay@cmconseils It’s not that simple.
From today, any action could result in a gazillion different futures. So whatever we do creates any of these futures.
If you travel back in time, you want only one of these futures preserved, and as such any small thing might break that ONE future.
Of course if you have an intention to create a specific future, your actions matter differently.
ferricoxide@cmconseils
The further you go into the past, the broader the scope of the impacts of your actions. Were I limited to just my lifetime, those impacts would be minimal within the remainder of my lifetime.
The further you go into the past, the broader the scope of the impacts of your actions. Were I limited to just my lifetime, those impacts would be minimal within the remainder of my lifetime.
Jim Jones@cmconseils Is this quote from the author Barbara R "Barney" Nelson or someone else?
🐈⬛ brie carranza@cmconseils 🌟 This is an interesting sentiment. Besides "vote" and "run for office" and "be present with your community", what can one do? I think some of us do think about changing the present but can't see how.
🔭 The "hindsight" of the present day makes changing things in the past seem easier and safer.
✨ IDK. I feel challenged and inspired by this quote -- partly because I think there are some things missing from the notion and identifying them is interesting and worthwhile.
🔭 The "hindsight" of the present day makes changing things in the past seem easier and safer.
✨ IDK. I feel challenged and inspired by this quote -- partly because I think there are some things missing from the notion and identifying them is interesting and worthwhile.
Assimilateborg@cmconseils if I could travel into the past I would change something big. Because the shitshow we have now is quite bad. So can it get any worse?
Schroedingers_Cat@cmconseils While I totally agree with this, and it is a great insight, the reason is that people see an issue in the present that they want to sort, and trace the root back, to something they want to change.
People focus on the present, not on the past or the future. We want THIS to be fixed, and think we can fix it by changing THAT. But if we don;t know what we want fixed, we don't know what to change.
SilkesterWhile it sounds powerful, it is far less so. We know the outcome. Take Lee Harvey Oswald and imagine you had his grandfather delayed in a crucial meet & greet that destined granddad's marriage, so no Harvey but a grandson called Eddi [What'ever] with an entirely different worldview and no assassination in mind.
While the other small action is targeted to produce a desired outcome, one that is highly unlikely at that, because of the nature of the action.
Ralf Hüls 📸@cmconseils That's because when travelling to the past, *any* change might prevent your present in some way, while when trying to change the future, you usually want some *specific* result.
Julien Avérous – 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦@cmconseils Oh, I knew it from a meme, but I'm happy to know the author (okay, I should have searched for it… 😅)
