Prompt:

Time travel! Right! Time travel! Er. I think when we think about time travel we’re like - “don’t change anything! Oh no! Because what if the flap of a butterfly’s wing in Tokyo causes a typhoon in - Hartlepool - or “ - Like there’s this temptation to, make it better, undo your mistakes, but then there’s the, you know, “Back to the Future” has really fucked our shit up, it’s like, don’t go to the past because then your mum will try to shag you and you won’t exist, your mistakes were actually the best option, what if any other thing you could possibly do would just make it worse. Very hard to imagine things being much worse! But actually I think things could get a lot worse, I think things will be a lot worse, very soon, if we don’t - I don’t know. If we don’t try and stop - I don’t want to name the calamities we’re facing actually. I feel like if I name them it’s like…they’ll know I’m there? They’ll like, get me. When I just don’t want them to notice me. But I actually think there’s an even darker possibility. What if - we could go back in time, try and stop things, fix things - and it just wouldn’t make any difference? What if we’re just on a flight path, and we’re going where we’re going? Like that is actually worse than going back in time and your mum falling in love with you. I reckon. Because then it’s like. There’s literally no point.