Any of you see the remake of the H.G. Wells, George Pal classic "The Time Machine"?

The remake stars Guy Pearce in the role of the protagonist, Jeremy Irons in the role of the antagonist, leader of the Morlocks.

The gist of this remake, the traveler's fiancée is murdered, the traveler builds a machine to save her but each time he does, she dies again in another way...he can't prevent her death. He decides he needs to go forward in time, to a more enlightened age where they can tell him, why he can't change his past...he needs to know why, even though he has mastery of time, he can't change his past.

In the time of the Eloi and Moorlock, 800,000 years in the future, he gets his answer. The leader of the Moorlocks tells him he is a man consumed with the idea of "WHAT IF?" That if his fiancée had lived, he never would have built his machine, so how could he save her if she had never died in the first place? A classic time paradox...

The Moorlock attempts to send him back to his own time, to prevent him from disrupting current time, yet, the protagonist refuses to believe that WHAT IF is not a possibility...

We are now in WHAT IF territory.

Now, I ask you to juxtapose that with the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who said:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

It is unlikely we'll be able to fight the machine coming for us, as Solzhenitsyn and his people would/could have, had they understood...it's no longer so simple as that.

But, there is still a WHAT IF...

What if every organ of the machine's smaller cogs became targets? Every wife, child, brother, sister, father, mother, cousin, friend... Every media stooge who lies for them. Every idiot in all the tech orgs that vilify and deny our freedoms. It is a terrible prospect to consider...truly horrifying...like the firebombing of Dresden, like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs...but, one has to ask at this point, do we do what needs to be done, or do we go quietly into that goodnight.

The left is awesome at doxing folks on the right. The left can receive the same action...find, identify...

And then...in the ideal of both Solzhenitsyn's query, and the ideal of defeating the moorlocks...I ask you...

WHAT IF!