Question 2

History runs forward (p. 268). Taleb explains: “What I am talking about is opacity, incompleteness of information, the invisibility of the generator of the world. History does not reveal its mind to us---we need to guess what’s inside of it.” How is Taleb’s view of history different from most historians (or is it)? How do you envision/depict history - is it a way of ‘explaining things’ or is it more Socratic (i.e. bringing up questions that may not have a good answer)?