Let's talk about The Time Machine, class, and a different reading....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bo, again. So tonight we're going to talk about the time |
| 0:06.1 | machine, H.G. Wells, the book. And because we're going to talk about the time machine, we've got to talk about class. |
| 0:16.0 | But this isn't going where you think it is. |
| 0:20.0 | So even if you've read the book, stick with me. |
| 0:23.8 | If you haven't read it, I'm going to give you a general overview of the plot. |
| 0:28.9 | It's not going to be enough to ruin the read, though. |
| 0:31.3 | You can still read it after this and enjoy it. Okay so there's a time traveler and he decides he's going to the future and by end of the future I mean way into the future like 800,000 years |
| 0:45.6 | into the future. When he gets there he meets this group of people called the |
| 0:49.8 | Eloi and they're short and they're child they're innocent, they lead a life of leisure. |
| 0:56.0 | They are also pretty much incapable of doing anything. |
| 1:01.0 | They're ineffective, they have short attention spans. They're just |
| 1:06.8 | not very bright. And he starts to think, man, this is how humanity evolved, because they didn't have any challenges after a while. |
| 1:19.0 | It's interesting. |
| 1:22.0 | As he continues to explore this world, he begins to wonder, who built these buildings? |
| 1:30.0 | Who makes their clothes? |
| 1:32.0 | Because it's not these people. They're incapable of that. They don't have it in them. |
| 1:40.0 | And he continues to explore and he finds this ventilation shaft. |
| 1:43.3 | And he goes down it and he meets another group of people called the Morlocks. |
| 1:48.0 | They're different. |
| 1:49.4 | They're big, they're strong. |
| 1:51.4 | They have skills. They're very adept. Doesn't take them long to realize that they're |
| 1:58.4 | producing everything that the Eloys need. And that occasionally they are quite literally eating the rich. |
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