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Quantum Physics 225: Wednesday, 5th Period
Coming in, the Doctor plays some tunes from the '70s. NOT DISCO, THANK YOU. James Taylor, excessive Fleetwood Mac, Frampton Comes Alive!, early Springsteen, you know the type. Good stuff, for crying out loud.
"So, the 1970s. Always good to look at what events led to what before you go. This can help, sometimes, in pinpointing what to avoid in order to keep paradox or severely damaging temporal events at bay...but don't be lulled into false security by thinking you know everything.
"I'm going to be perfectly frank with you. Travelling in time means that at some point you will change things. Therefore, the point of this class is to keep you from bollocksing everything up and plunging an entire society into centuries of oppression and discord. Or something to that equivalent. Keep this in mind--sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. It's finding the balance between the two that's the most important. I believe Sam Carter once asked why no one's succeeded at assassinating Hitler. The answer to this can only be found if one anticipates what the planet would look like without the second World War."
He's on a tangent now, but he doesn't care. "The possibility of continuing British colonial oppression never seems to strike the mind of ignorant yet allegedly altruistic time travellers. I've seen it, and I've seen the wars that come out of it. Not pretty at all, end up with ten times more dead on both sides than come out of World War II and the Nazi Holocaust. And that's one example.
"So that's why we're considering what would come out of stopping the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, or the Iron Curtain. You did the reading, tell me what actually happened in your chosen topic during the 1970s. For Monday, I want..." He pauses, thinking. "Bring me a cultural reference from your topic. Nothing illegal--for example, Jack could bring in Jefferson Airplane's song 'White Rabbit', but not anymore because I've mentioned it."
((Wikipedia on the 1970s. And yes, I have this on MP3, if you want it. Just happens to be on iTunes radio at the mo. Who doesn't love some talkbox?! Also, for Monday--bring a weblink or a picture or upload a song. You know you wanna.))
"So, the 1970s. Always good to look at what events led to what before you go. This can help, sometimes, in pinpointing what to avoid in order to keep paradox or severely damaging temporal events at bay...but don't be lulled into false security by thinking you know everything.
"I'm going to be perfectly frank with you. Travelling in time means that at some point you will change things. Therefore, the point of this class is to keep you from bollocksing everything up and plunging an entire society into centuries of oppression and discord. Or something to that equivalent. Keep this in mind--sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. It's finding the balance between the two that's the most important. I believe Sam Carter once asked why no one's succeeded at assassinating Hitler. The answer to this can only be found if one anticipates what the planet would look like without the second World War."
He's on a tangent now, but he doesn't care. "The possibility of continuing British colonial oppression never seems to strike the mind of ignorant yet allegedly altruistic time travellers. I've seen it, and I've seen the wars that come out of it. Not pretty at all, end up with ten times more dead on both sides than come out of World War II and the Nazi Holocaust. And that's one example.
"So that's why we're considering what would come out of stopping the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, or the Iron Curtain. You did the reading, tell me what actually happened in your chosen topic during the 1970s. For Monday, I want..." He pauses, thinking. "Bring me a cultural reference from your topic. Nothing illegal--for example, Jack could bring in Jefferson Airplane's song 'White Rabbit', but not anymore because I've mentioned it."
((Wikipedia on the 1970s. And yes, I have this on MP3, if you want it. Just happens to be on iTunes radio at the mo. Who doesn't love some talkbox?! Also, for Monday--bring a weblink or a picture or upload a song. You know you wanna.))
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She sighed, "I think it depends on whether you believe he was assassinated for a random reason or not, since the definition of a martyr is someone who dies for their beliefs, which I'm not sure he did."
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