Time and Mankind

What if there was a way to turn back time? Would there have been the Holocaust, forgotten wars on the borders of Botswana, Apartheid, the great Depression, the cold war, communism, witch burnings and raped babies.

If we were aware of the mistakes we were about to make, would things be more rose coloured? Or are we just doomed as humans to live out our fate? Would going back trying to rectify those mistakes help mankind or would it send it down the precipitous it’s hovering on?
Humans in general are destructive by nature, when challenged with the unknown. Maybe the past is such a stranger to most of us, that going back four hundred years in one second could backfire immensely. Culture shock would rip your psyche to jagged pieces, and the truth of time would be wrenched from your grasp.

What would happen if you didn’t have to count your days by minutes and hours anymore? Instead, centuries would be your long weekend holidays. Memories would mean nothing, you could go back and marry four different people and live all four lives; love would not be forever and forever could reach millenniums or barely touch hours.

Would humankind still perceive the same morals and disciplines as the norm, or would the laws of different eras mingle and form one massive, cohesive, chaotic law book? A law is based on the right and wrong of an era. What counted as witchcraft in the middle ages would not necessarily raise an eyebrow in the 21st century. Hygiene standards which were acceptable in renaissance Edinburgh could raise major questions and riots in present day.

Imagine great minds such as Aristotle and Einstein, bickering over a cup of coffee, Da Vinci and Hawking collaborating on new ideas. Bill Gates and Alexander the great chatting about world domination. Or villains such as Osama and Hitler planning a new hate war. What would a collaboration done by Beethoven and Kurt Cobain sound like? Imagine Britney Spears having tea and Cake with Marie Antoinette, Paris Hilton and Joan of Arc trapped in an elevator together. Steven Spielberg and Charles Dickens; writing and filming a new story.
The world, universe and history would into one big melting pot, and all of time would become an increasingly smaller place.
Time is the one and only constant reality mankind has, without the reassuring tick - tock of a clock and the changes of the moon, we would be lost in a world far more empty than we could ever believe possible.