The Outside World: UK
How Did The Great Rewind. . .
Effect the Population
During The Great Rewind, there were some protests as people did not want to go back to the 1860s - 1880s technologically this resulted in conflicts and loss of life. They regressed as the current academic literature was not reliable, trusted and safe. Academia broke into factions, one who agreed with the texts that were not corrected or not trusted. While the other, who wanted to test what was told in the academic literature. The faction that agreed with the faulty texts disagreed with the other faction. This was normally through protests or violence. They did successfully regress technologically to the 1860s but with loss and life and loss of some or all types of resources. After The Great Rewind, a more communitarian point of view and members of the community began to help or look out for each other. Others set up a Library of Things which had a collection of tools that could be withdrawn and used saving the community money on buying tools.Towns and Cities
After the event, some towns and cities became more regimented for organisation sake. Some towns and cities devolved so that if they did not have factories before the rewind now do. These are found in areas that once has buildings demolished during The Great Rewind. Towns and cities produce as much of everything as to limit the need to transport goods. For commodities that could not produce for example metal, then are transported by train.Transport Networks
Other transport networks are used, such as the canals of the UK still exist so shipping using the rivers and canals. Roads are no longer suitable for road traffic as we would expect. This is because the roads have been destroyed due to The Great Rewind as well as the resource destruction the event caused including the crude oil being exhausted across the world. Trains are prominently used as the rails were more easily repaired, produced and managed this is the case for the aggregate as well. Since rail lines are powered while in towns and cities, and not anywhere else the trains are a hybrid of technology. Meaning while they are moving between built-up areas, they are steam-powered whilst in built-up areas however they will use the powered lines. For the air, gliders could be used as they didn’t need fuel but from a high spot to a lower one, these gliders could not carry a lot of things, perhaps a person a few rations of food and water. Planes, as we know them can not work due to the fuel they need, is exhausted.Farming Villages
Farming Villages are external to towns and cities and prominently produce food of either type be it, crop or animal agriculture. After The Great Rewind people started leaving the outlying villages for the towns and cities so that they could carry on enjoying the standard of living they enjoyed. This is why the villages are most agricultural-based, as time went on they lost electricity supply so relied upon the trade of candles, tools and weapons as well as clothes.Wilderness
As people were not travelling on roads as much these roads started to deteriorate as result roads are either dirt roads and desire paths, that are worn out by foot traffic. These roads are a mixture of the old asphalt with repairs of stones. When travelling if a road needs repair and is not in the jurisdiction of a village or town or city, then it is the traveller who repairs the roads, using what is around them. This has a knock-on effect that makes road repair cheaper for the Central Government. This then allowed the wilderness to recover from human habitation from twentieth-century life. Wild animals roam the wilderness, this then means that Travelers on the roads now carrying weapons such as knives so that the travellers can defend themselves. These knives double up as a tool to skin the animal for its pelt. The pelt would then be sold at the travelers’ destination, for-profit, the profit is then spent on what the village needs. These could be tools or stones to repair their roads as well as more clothes for the coming season.How Did People React To It?
During The Great Rewind there were two types of people who reacted during The Great Rewind. These were the academics and everyone else.Academia
Before The Great Rewind academics were having issues with their academic literature such as their textbooks and research journals this got to the point in which they didn’t know what was true, safe and known or otherwise. They began testing all information to make sure and made corrections however some didn’t like the corrections. So academia separated into factions those who wanted truth and those who wanted the inaccurate versions. It was then decided that they needed to rewind technology to a point when they know for sure what they knew. They found that the 1860s - 1880s was the latest point in history this could get to before the inaccuracies were too much and society regressed back to the 1880's not with some troubles.Everyone Else
The upcoming years, running up to the year 2020, were especially bad names due to the yearly disasters that were occurring in the years between 2017 to 2019, while these did not affect the population too badly, due to the sense of nationality and pride in ourselves to continue. This was not the cast in 2020 due to a pandemic from overseas. This malaise affected the population of the UK and much of the world due to governments restricting rights to “keep their people safe”. After the pandemic was alleviated the populations of the western world released they still were not given back their inalienable rights, so protested and fought for them back. It was clear that in academia that there were issues as there were multiple news stories of people being killed or injured in laboratory accidents. These to them were tragic but not worth writing home about. For those who cared, for they had relatives or friends working in scientific fields, they petitioned for these to be looked into. As we know in the fields themselves they separated into factions one that cared about the truth and safety and the other being for what was killing and injuring their colleagues citing the need to discover without risk. This faction began to fight argumentatively. The Non-academics did not like the idea of The Great Rewind because this would mean a reduction of the standard of living. Everyone else did not take it well at first protest broke out then riots, from this point forward the history books are not clear what happened as the next event we know is that The Great Rewind was successful and that humanity managed to regress technologically back to the 1880s.Recovering from The Great Rewind
Due to The Great Rewind, the world has regressed back to the 1880s technologically. It will take time for the human race to get back to a twenty-first-century standard technologically. This time will be different from the first time we travelled down the same path as some technologies required crude oil to function. While we will get back to the technological standards of the twenty-first century we will not travel down the same route we did the first time. From recovering from The Great Rewind, in the lines of transportation. Trains have become a hybrid of two propulsion technologies namely that if they are in built-up areas the train will connect to the power rail and be powered through electricity when they are travelling between towns and cities they will revert back to steam power. This is because they do not want to annoy the residence of the city by using loud steam power in built-up areas where electric-powered trains will be quieter. In the community circles, people became to grow more communitarian and grew closer as a community and looked out for another. Adverts for employment included the need to be communitarian and care for others rather than just having customer services. Before The Great Rewind, an era called the Old World, while they call the one they are in the New World. During the foggy part of history where we do not know what happened between the Old and New World is called the Between Years. No one truly knows how long the Between Years is as it is a buffer period between the end of the Old World and the New. The viewpoint of the later part of the Old World is that everyone must be happy and enjoyed themselves. This part of the Old World is seen as a Golden age. Towards the end of the Golden Age, and the Between Years started the view is the Golden Age didn't just end but the world just got worse. People are not generally hopeless, they are not they are communitarians and it is that they get hope and direction in their lives.Historical Figures
Not much is known about historical figures in recent history, people know of Elon musk for his sending a car into space. This is currently seen as wasteful as the resources not for just sending the vehicle into space but the rocket itself could be used in other places. Other people are known but definitions over time have changed so other TV chiefs books have lasted decades and are prized possessions as the author is dead along with the access to some ingredients to make the chief’s food can be hard to get or even too expensive to acquire. One particular book mentions a historic joke in which a TV chief was making mash potato and pronounced the word microwave incorrectly [1]. The joke is lost on them not because they do not know what mashed potato is but rather they don't know what a microwave oven is. In much, early history people know who Einstein or Faraday are. It's much more close to the start of The Great Rewind that people do not know much about historical figures.Customs and Culture
While culture has not changed its customs and attitudes have. Much of what we would understand from the British Calendar has largely lasted the test of time, what has changed are additions to the calendar and one change to when an event is observed.Additions to the Calendar Events
Thanksgiving
The additions lie in the addition to Canadian Thanksgiving as it is far enough away from Christmas. Thanksgiving became observed as a way to bring people together. Originally it was an addition with multiple factions one who performed the American version another who preferred the Canadian Version and the large majority who did not show a preference or did not practice Thanksgiving at all. While this changed to be in line with British attitudes, this took time and persuasion among others.The Great Day of Celebration
The other addition was not a single event but a new weekly event, The Great Day of Celebration, which is observed on Thursdays. While it is true that it is used to make perceptive time run faster so that they can get to Saturday faster. It is more true that they are celebrating the labour and the education that they have accomplished during the week and looking forward to the Weekend.Changes to the Calendar Events
The only change that happened to the British Calendar is that to Easter, instead of the event moving due to, a complicated rule[2]Quote below, it was put on to the first Sunday in April to make it easier to publish calendars and Diaries.Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the full Moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox
Celebrities
Since communication between towns and cities is difficult since the information or news is written on cards and given to each town or city a train comes by so that news can be put on to noticeboards in the Town’s or City’s libraries. This then means that apart from historic celebrities, the more contemporary kinds are more local and are not known by other places.Article Contents
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References
[1] Microwave Reference[2] Quote Reference
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