1969: Stories from The Hunter Legacy Universe (The Long Road to Outback) by Ellis Timothy

Author:Ellis, Timothy [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Timothy Ellis
Published: 2015-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Three

I followed the boy to school several days later, and watched the way humans were interacting with each other.

Here I found what I was expecting, in both the children and adults.

Anger, greed, selfishness, arrogance, fear. All the negative emotions were here.

But so too were all the positive ones. The mix was intriguing. I found it hard to believe so few years could change the world so much.

I expanded my awareness to cover the whole world. Ah. Things varied from place to place. Here was mainly a peaceful society with few guns evident. There was a society in which guns were obvious and frequently used by ordinary people. The rich dominated some places, poverty dominated others. And then there was politics, causing all sorts of conflict.

Where was the warfare I expected? Ah, yes, there it was. Strangely isolated to a small area called South East Asia, centered on Vietnam. I willed myself there. I followed groups of troops from all sides of the conflict, watching how they conducted themselves. Brutality and senseless acts there were, but not on the scale of the 1940's.

I followed the war back to its beginning, and kept going back looking for the one before it. Korea, a small place, also in Asia, with a small conflict which never really resolved anything.

I kept going back until I hit the end of the Second World War. This is where I'd left the last time I’d been here, vowing not to return. I revisited the atomic bomb blasts which ended this war.

Strange. Lots of little brushfires since then, but only two wars, neither of which could be called major. Perhaps the nuclear threat had changed the planet, instead of being its obvious destruction?

I wound time forward slowly, seeking out the key events.

Hmmm, something they were calling a 'cold war', where belief systems worked against each other without actual warfare. I followed the witch-hunt with the catch cry of 'reds under the beds'. Evil had found a new outlet with this one, but it came to an end without the level of bloodshed I was expecting from it.

I arrived back at 1969, and let the beginning of that year unfold. An event caught my eye, and I followed a newspaper man forty five years into the future, observing the rise of the mass media and the way it perverted the truth to achieve mass control of beliefs, particularly in regard to politics and elections.

I watched the rise of serious global pollution, and the way the media gave politicians and rich people the reasons for denial of the real problems, whilst suppressing and ridiculing the truth. On a whim, I shot three hundred years into the future and found a lifeless planet. It wasn’t radiation which killed it, just stupidity. I grinned to myself. Then felt sad for the cats. On the way back, I took note of the space ships heading out, and noted the cat population had gone with them.

I stopped to watch an event in 2001, fascinated by the 'disaster junkie' syndrome which had gripped much of the world.

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