This is a really tough question, even if you don't need to consider the consequences of your actions. >.<
I feel that I ought to use this ability to save something of historic importance. But there's so many things that have been lost throughout the ages, it's difficult to pick a single item. I assume I can't bring things back with me, so I need to prevent or secure it in the time in which it was lost and try to encourage it's survival into the modern day. As such, I think my best choice is to go to a time of mass destruction & save as much as I can, rather than saving a singular piece.
I think I'd have to go and try and save the artwork, literature etc that was stolen by the Germans in WWII before it has a chance to be lost. If nothing else, I'd at least try to find where everything was hidden to recover it later - surely there was a record made, if I could save it before it's destruction everything on the list could be found.
I know I'd also have to try and stop the destruction of the rest. Was it the "Nero decree" that was the order to destroy everything or was that just related to war related things like railways & factories? Can't remember.
I feel like the world lost a great many things during those days and at least I might save something that belongs to all the world. To quote Indiana Jones "It belongs in a museum!", so anyone can enjoy it.
I did toy with the idea of saving the library of Alexandria, but I think even if I did save it the majority of the contents still would not survive into the modern era, where it can be preserved forever - electronically as well as physically, and other copies produced.
If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.
08-Nov-2017 14:21:34
