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Tip-Off #186 - Where are we going?

Tip-Off #186 - Where are we going?

Back to the future.

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William Green
Feb 27, 2025
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In the early Greek imagination, the past and present were "before us," visible and knowable, while the future lay behind our backs—we back into it blindly. The best preparation for an unseen future is to turn around.

This concept of time is reflected in works such as Sophocles' Antigone. There are lessons often overlooked that speak to crises today.

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