Riding with Lincoln
When i'm alone in my car, especially at night, i like to imagine how i would explain our world to Abraham Lincoln, if there were some way he could travel to our time. I always feel that since he died so soon after the civil war ended, with so much unsettled, he may have died uneasy about our country's future. Of course i would love to awe him with some of our technological wonders. Just driving down the road at sixty miles per hour would be sufficiently awesome for him. But the game is really about me looking at modern times through his eyes and appreciating all we have and take for granted. Every few minutes a huge glistening vehicle lumbers into the sky at the airport, inside it forty or fifty or even hundreds of people sit in comfort and enjoy the view and the greatly shortened trip time. In the car i can push a button and listen to a symphony, some of the new music would require some explaining, but we have so much variety at our fingertips music-wise. I think even our speech, which we think of as unchanged, would be like a foreign tongue with all the slang and new words especially those used to talk about technology. And i believe we talk much faster and expect responses to be quick bursts, whereas someone of Lincoln's time would appreciate the careful unveiling of a thought, and the artful and accurate selection of words to express oneself. Good luck finding that in our times.
