Thursday, January 20, 2005

Alternate Worldlines without WWI & WWII

Using Steven Gibbs HDR, I have astral time travelled to alternate worldlines without a world war I or II and seen how they developed to 2005.

There are worldlines where the United States did not have any world wars. On most of these people are nicer than here, less agressive and more compassionate. However, there is less technology than here.

Our electronics revolution with computers, cellular telephones, and internet never happened.
People still use record players, old style dial telephones with an operator on the other end, typewriters, and don't laugh - a sliderule. Calculators and even adding machines are not used on their worldline, get used to pencil and paper.

Still the sky near big cities is filled with big grey zepellins, so many of them, these large German balloons. There are no jets in the sky, but biplanes thunder overhead, hundreds of them. Executives going to work. That reminds me, most products are still produced in America, which is quite large after it merged with Canada.

Movies are still in black and white, streets are still safe at night.
Because there was no slavery, there is a lot less racial tension. Also less generational tension. Teens talk to old people. In fact, most people marry when they are 14 or 15. Their music is similar to our country music.

Still their society seems poorer than ours. Most people cannot afford to buy a new car, and use a small scooter. Cars are for the rich and powerful. Also television is for the super rich, with only two channels A & B.

Most people get their news over the radio as a lot of people cannot or will not read. Still the rich read the newspaper everyday and also have television.They do not have washers and dryers like we have, or vacuum cleaners. Most people are poor and lack medical attention.
I did see that however that they developed time machines using tube electronics. These were available to the public,but they were warned against going to high crime worldlines like ours.
They see our worldline the way we see Stalin's Soviet style republic. It talks about freedom and worlers rights, but the reality is quite different. Most of them avoid our worldline, but if you could spot them here it would be by their accent.

When they talk instead of saying "yes or no" they say "yaw or naw", instead of mother and father it's "maw & paw".This makes them seem ignorant and unschool, and most of them do not finish hih school, but get a job in a factory. Men that is, women stay home raising children and they typically have large families.Most of their women still wear dresses and most of their men still wear hats, like a 30's movie.

There is a joke on their worldline, "Why does the elephant in the zoo have a cage around him? So nobody will steal him." It is funny, because there is no theft in those worldlines except for maybe a little kid stealing candy from the store or something like that. In fact, automobiles do not have keys, but a start button. If a poor person stole a car and drove it to their rundown neighborhood, it would stand out like an elephant. Also, you do not need a drivers license or a tag. People are more free than here. Police are not constantly stopping people on the road and asking them questions.

If you see a sign on a restaurant that says "HELP WANTED" you go right in and apply in person. No forms to fill out or resumes to hand in. Also, you are paid in cash at the end of the week. That is how it is on that world.State sales tax is only 2% (no tax on food) and government gets most of its money from tarrifs on imported goods. There is no income tax or even property tax. Luxury items like perfumes from France are taxed at 35%.

I have travelled many times to these worldlines and have nostalgia for them.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

I love this! I don't know why but this really resonates with me. maybe I've been there