But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.