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Leaning Into the Future

Future telling is one of the greatest skills that we value. To know the future of the stock market, future lottery number winners, future sports scores leads to money and power. Nate Silver became famous not only for his accurate predictions of sporting events but also the 2008 election.

Future telling is so valuable because of our anxiety about the future. As insecure, fragile and dependent creatures we are always nervous about what the future will bring. Will we have enough money for retirement? Will out health hold out? Will the kids be OK? Will I eat or have shelter tomorrow?

Knowing the future, or at least having a hunch about it offers us the possibility of gaming the future. If you know Hillary will win maybe you decide to huddle up with the Democrats. If you think Apple phone will start exploding like the Samsung Note maybe you sell their stock. If we can know the future we imagine it wise to accommodate our hearts and our lives to it in order that we might be on “the winning side of history”.

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