When Marty slammed the DeLorean into overdrive and fired up the flux capacity as he raced away from the bad guys at 88 mile per hour, he was given an opportunity none of us will ever get. Back in the past, he could change things that would make his future better. He had the benefit of knowing how things will turn out if he made no changes, but once he made a change in his now present, the future he was trying to get back to was unknown to him. The ancients Greeks thought of themselves as having their backs to the future. They conceived of time as moving on them from behind where they couldn’t see what was coming, and with the past laid out in front of them with all their mistake to see.
Wasting time
Wasting time
Wasting time
When Marty slammed the DeLorean into overdrive and fired up the flux capacity as he raced away from the bad guys at 88 mile per hour, he was given an opportunity none of us will ever get. Back in the past, he could change things that would make his future better. He had the benefit of knowing how things will turn out if he made no changes, but once he made a change in his now present, the future he was trying to get back to was unknown to him. The ancients Greeks thought of themselves as having their backs to the future. They conceived of time as moving on them from behind where they couldn’t see what was coming, and with the past laid out in front of them with all their mistake to see.