86057 - Transcription: Podcast With Us #160: History creates Future

N. Lygeros

History is not a fiction and of course it isn’t dead. Our position in front of history is very important because we have to define our behavior in this continuum of space-time. History is not just a description of reality, it’s something which is deeper. We have to think of our behavior in this framework in order to be in the right place at the time because as always if we think only about tactics and not strategy, it’s impossible to understand our real position in time. With history we have enough time to decide, even after our moves if they were right or not. Without history it’s quite impossible to define the correctness of the move. Imagine that you have the game, the chess game for example and you want to see if one move is correct or not and you don’t have the previous one you can imagine that sometimes it’s possible but very often it’s impossible because you don’t know the strategy which allows this position. So you need the deep past in order to create the deep future . If you don’t do that your life is just an improvisation. Imagine applying this system in geopolitics, it will be a disaster. So the idea is to use history to create future.