Obviously, it is not possible to predict it exactly, but we can really have an idea in the end because there are major trends that emerge and these major trends continue to be valid since human beings, in 6,000 years, have not changed, they have the same DNA in the end. History allows us to have an idea of the future but also of course to better understand the current world. For example, conflicts. We have a lot of conflicts at the moment as there have always been at all times in the end.
we can understand them or, in my opinion, we can understand them better when we have studied history or when we study history than by only listening to the newspapers, because, and here it is perhaps a little critical and polemical what I am going to say, it is not the journalists who are going to teach us history because journalists, it is not their job, journalists are not historians and it is very often... what journalists tell us... There are obviously serious journalists, but if we take in hong kong whatsapp number data broad outline what journalists tell us, well it is not always very researched. We will take a general idea, an idea that is shared by the majority of people and we will only write articles on this idea, on this point of view, without trying to dig deeper, without trying to understand the origin of the conflict.
And whatever the conflicts, I will not cite any of them voluntarily, because every time I cite something, I am told "yes, but Johan, you did not cite my example", so I do not want to cite any particular example, but each historical conflict or each current conflict arises from a whole bunch of events and elements, it is never one thing. They often want, in the press, to put in our heads: "Here, something dramatic is happening today, there is this war, well it is due to this person and that, and that's it, there is nothing else". We know very well that it is never all black and white.
When you start studying history, you realize that, "Okay. The person we're all criticizing right now is responsible," because that's often the case, but there are many other people responsible because there are many other facts that you can't know if you just read the newspapers or watch the news.
That's why, for me, history allows us to both better understand the present and perhaps have a little idea of what could happen in the future, because history often repeats itself, and that's it. That's why I've always read a lot about history.