《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（2）(24)
2024-06-14克苏鲁神话《让这里陷入黑暗吧》 来源:百合文库
"Pitts," he said, "there is a better way."
Pitts shook his head. "It's no good -- I've thought of it, too. We can rearrange history all we want, but the outcome is inevitable."
"I can't accept that. History isn't predetermined; it's course is contingent, determined by choices and events which have multiple outcomes. It's just a matter of going back and making choices or influencing events so that they produce the right outcomes."
"How?" Pitts asked quietly. "There are nearly an infinite number of possible outcomes, most of which would produce the same results. How could you possibly find the vanishing few rare outcomes that would make even a tiny difference?"
"There's got to be a way we can do it," Taggart replied stubbornly, "no matter how fantastically hopeless it is. This world cannot be inevitable."
"You don't understand," Pitts replied with grim patience. "The Pan-Occidental Christian Empire isn't inevitable, but some despotic government is. This world could just as easily have been a neo-Nazi state, or a Bolshevik state, or even one patterned after Orwell's Oceania in 1984."
Pitts shook his head. "It's no good -- I've thought of it, too. We can rearrange history all we want, but the outcome is inevitable."
"I can't accept that. History isn't predetermined; it's course is contingent, determined by choices and events which have multiple outcomes. It's just a matter of going back and making choices or influencing events so that they produce the right outcomes."
"How?" Pitts asked quietly. "There are nearly an infinite number of possible outcomes, most of which would produce the same results. How could you possibly find the vanishing few rare outcomes that would make even a tiny difference?"
"There's got to be a way we can do it," Taggart replied stubbornly, "no matter how fantastically hopeless it is. This world cannot be inevitable."
"You don't understand," Pitts replied with grim patience. "The Pan-Occidental Christian Empire isn't inevitable, but some despotic government is. This world could just as easily have been a neo-Nazi state, or a Bolshevik state, or even one patterned after Orwell's Oceania in 1984."
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