Why bother traveling through time if you’re still stuck on this planet? We already have space travel and, to take heed of Monty Python, we may be better off praying “that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!”
Not Google, but Wikipedia defines the Age of Enlightenment (aka Age of Reason) as “the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.” So not exactly what you’re asking for, but at least it’s a start.
I teach history. One of the great diseases of mankind is the mistaken belief things were wonderful at some point, prior to now, and the youth of today is worse than the youth of yore and life was so much better at that point in the imagined past. Nostalgia is evil.
One of the worst cases was 19th century Romanticism, “Life is terrible here in society undergoing industrialization, but everything was wonderful back in the 13th century.” Let’s hear it for the Black Death. Romanticism gave us the Neo-Gothic revival, which you can see in thousands of churches and other buildings around the world from the 19th century. Called “The New Style” when it came it, after it was passee it was termed Gothic – ugly and barbaric. But it was dug up from its grave in the 19th century and hailed as reflecting a perfect age.
I asked CoPilot Danae’s questions:Hunter-Gatherer Intelligence:Our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors needed intelligence to survive in harsh environments and outwit dangerous prey. This exerted selective pressure on genes related to intellectual development1.During this period, human intelligence likely peaked.
“This is the stupidest day in American history. A record that will be broken by ever subsequent day in American history” – Matt Christman on 1/20/17, the day an easy to spot liar, grifter, coward, fraud and corrupt, unfit, incompetent Russian dupe became president.
“Space-Time Defibrillator”, does that mean Jefferie’s machine can shock the space-time continuum back into a normal rhythm? If so, he’s gonna need a bigger power cord.
Try going back about 66 million years. There was a mass extinction event that wiped out about 75% of living creatures, so I imagine things were pretty peaceful for a year or so.
Jeffrey drives the time machine, so he has to go with her. So no matter the destination, Danae will be with him. And Danae finds Jeffrey annoying (and sometimes stupid, since he’s a boy). Danae has played herself.
Maybe 65 million years ago when Dinosaurs were on the cusp of developing intelligence. Of course, I can’t say whether intelligent Dinos would have been any more or less annoying then Humans.
Danae, there has never been such a time and there never will be such a time. There is only time before human stupidity and time after human stupidity, when humans are extinct.
Had early man been truly stupid and lacking in intelligence, the species would have never survived in a world filled with carnivores and various poisonous varieties.
By all measures that anthropologists have come up with, hunter gatherer societies were considerably more internally cohesive and irenic than agricultural societies. Less hours worked per day, fewer coercive systems of social control, and generally less inter group conflict.
Which isn’t to say that it was all rainbows an unicorns. But it’s hard to say that agriculture made human society happier.
lalapalooza Premium Member 14 days ago
wow it would be fun to have a time travel scientist friend named Jeffery!
rmremail 14 days ago
…. So you want to go to 5 minutes before you were born?
Bilan 14 days ago
Just shot for something between the Cretaceous period and the ascent of man.
Bilan 14 days ago
As Buckaroo said, wherever you go, there you are. That means it’s impossible, Danae.
cmxx 14 days ago
Stupid and annoying seems to be, and historically to have been, most human beings’ metier.
Wilde Bill 14 days ago
Go back to a time when mice ruled the Earth.
Scorpio Premium Member 14 days ago
Before people were stupid – that would be before there were people.
Enter.Name.Here 14 days ago
Danae: “..I want to go to when people weren’t stupid and annoying.”
Jefferies: “So, you want to go to when there were no people.”
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member 14 days ago
Go back to before trump, he has split this country probably more that the civil war!
unfair.de 14 days ago
It should be possible to find a time and place where people were less stupid and annoying than today’s America.
wallylm 14 days ago
Why bother traveling through time if you’re still stuck on this planet? We already have space travel and, to take heed of Monty Python, we may be better off praying “that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!”
daDoctah1 14 days ago
Not Google, but Wikipedia defines the Age of Enlightenment (aka Age of Reason) as “the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.” So not exactly what you’re asking for, but at least it’s a start.
Defective Premium Member 14 days ago
No matter where she goes, there she is. And it will still be a problem.
LawrenceS 13 days ago
I teach history. One of the great diseases of mankind is the mistaken belief things were wonderful at some point, prior to now, and the youth of today is worse than the youth of yore and life was so much better at that point in the imagined past. Nostalgia is evil.
One of the worst cases was 19th century Romanticism, “Life is terrible here in society undergoing industrialization, but everything was wonderful back in the 13th century.” Let’s hear it for the Black Death. Romanticism gave us the Neo-Gothic revival, which you can see in thousands of churches and other buildings around the world from the 19th century. Called “The New Style” when it came it, after it was passee it was termed Gothic – ugly and barbaric. But it was dug up from its grave in the 19th century and hailed as reflecting a perfect age.
dot-the-I 13 days ago
“All you have to know of men and women: Women are crazy. Men are stupid. The main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
(George Carlin)
“I’m fairly certain that YOLO is ‘Carpe Diem’ for stupid people.”
(Jack Black)
mrwiskers 13 days ago
I asked CoPilot Danae’s questions:Hunter-Gatherer Intelligence:Our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors needed intelligence to survive in harsh environments and outwit dangerous prey. This exerted selective pressure on genes related to intellectual development1.During this period, human intelligence likely peaked.
Hollymartins2 13 days ago
“This is the stupidest day in American history. A record that will be broken by ever subsequent day in American history” – Matt Christman on 1/20/17, the day an easy to spot liar, grifter, coward, fraud and corrupt, unfit, incompetent Russian dupe became president.
bbenoit 13 days ago
“Space-Time Defibrillator”, does that mean Jefferie’s machine can shock the space-time continuum back into a normal rhythm? If so, he’s gonna need a bigger power cord.
bluecat 13 days ago
“Okay, here you ate”
“Where, err, when are we?”
“I brought you to Southern Asia, 500 BCE. That is the Buddha over there.”
Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member 13 days ago
Try going back about 66 million years. There was a mass extinction event that wiped out about 75% of living creatures, so I imagine things were pretty peaceful for a year or so.
ManiacEx 13 days ago
Jeffrey drives the time machine, so he has to go with her. So no matter the destination, Danae will be with him. And Danae finds Jeffrey annoying (and sometimes stupid, since he’s a boy). Danae has played herself.
david_42 13 days ago
The end of the last Ice Age would work. Lots of large carnivorous animals and their usual prey dying out.
William Bednar Premium Member 13 days ago
Maybe 65 million years ago when Dinosaurs were on the cusp of developing intelligence. Of course, I can’t say whether intelligent Dinos would have been any more or less annoying then Humans.
Groucho & Redd Panda 13 days ago
Perhaps Danae wants someone to be nice to her, to accept her as she is.
If Jeff is as clever as he thinks, he might be capable of this. Or not.
Count Olaf Premium Member 13 days ago
Before Liberals?
Daltongang Premium Member 13 days ago
Danae, there has never been such a time and there never will be such a time. There is only time before human stupidity and time after human stupidity, when humans are extinct.
dflak 13 days ago
I don’t know if such a time exists. It would be a time where everyone thinks like me. The Earth could not survive such a time.
sandpiper 13 days ago
Had early man been truly stupid and lacking in intelligence, the species would have never survived in a world filled with carnivores and various poisonous varieties.
DaBump Premium Member 13 days ago
“Here, Adam, try this! It’s delicious and nutritious!”
paranormal 13 days ago
Danae, that time hasn’t happened…
zwilnik64 13 days ago
By all measures that anthropologists have come up with, hunter gatherer societies were considerably more internally cohesive and irenic than agricultural societies. Less hours worked per day, fewer coercive systems of social control, and generally less inter group conflict.
Which isn’t to say that it was all rainbows an unicorns. But it’s hard to say that agriculture made human society happier.
mindjob 13 days ago
If you go back far enough, people were even more stupid. Competition and the migration out of Southern Africa got rid of a lot of the dumb ones.
cbedda 13 days ago
when he draws danae with teeth, its a sign that we all should be worried.
steveandeileen 13 days ago
Far too many people want to go back to a time that only exists in their imagination.
mistercatworks 13 days ago
Try a billion years in the future.
kathleenhicks62 13 days ago
Always been this way. . . . just saying,
swenbu Premium Member 13 days ago
Love Danae’s expression in panel 3!!
MFRXIM Premium Member 13 days ago
I’m getting some very Deja Vu history lessons in books by Author Lynne Olson, and Rachel Maddow.
EXCALABUR 13 days ago
The most dangerous people in the world are the Stupid Smart People
leemorse9777 13 days ago
Before the internet and cell phones would be a good start and before the “time out” crowd. A spanking never hurt anyone.
Mike Baldwin creator 13 days ago
That was last Wednesday.
David Rickard Premium Member 13 days ago
It’s been pretty much downhill ever since the blue-green algae started farting oxygen.
keenanthelibrarian 13 days ago
Since when (that word again) did Google only search just for reality? Anyway, I think he’s already made up his mind.
eddi-TBH 13 days ago
Any time before the introduction of oxygen.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member 13 days ago
I got some bad news for you, Danae …