People don’t time travel the way they used to in the good old days…

everambling:

I don’t know, I think time travel just isn’t what it used to be. You know what I mean. Time Travelers used to choose destinations of Importance. The extinction of the dinosaurs. The fall of Constantinople. The storming of the Bastille. Nowadays everyone keeps going back to the Spiceworld tour ‘98. No one travels back before the invention of penicillin or indoor plumbing anymore.

People just aren’t disrupting the space-time continuum like they used to. Rupturing the quantum flow used to require a supercharged electromagnetic arc large enough to fill several football fields. Now you just punch in a few codes on your pocket reactor and off you go. There’s no artistry to it.

Time Travelers used to be an elite class. It took years of study, connections, capital investments to get to that point. These days anybody can just buy a ticket to witness the fall of the Iron Curtain firsthand, regardless of whether or not they’re a fifth generation legacy at Yale.

There used to be a code of conduct, you know? Back in the day time travelers would never touch anything, would be extra careful not to meet and fall in love with their own parents at risk of erasing themselves from existence and setting off a cataclysmic chain reaction of paradoxes that would result in the destruction of the universe as we know it. But now, everybody seems to be in a rush to make the decision that will cause reality to split in half and create a new dimension. The multiverse is just teeming; there have never been so many alternate universes created at once.

It’s like no one is even trying to access the good old racially charged frontier of the Far West, everyone is in such a rush to kill Hitler all of a sudden. Time Travelers don’t even bother to stop and greet each other while hurtling through the wormhole from one era to another anymore, the very fabric of their bodies tearing itself apart in searing agony while they scream for an end to their unthinkable torment.

I don’t know, I just feel like we’ve lost touch with our roots. Time Travel isn’t what it used to be.