“History is not a straight line. It is like a river: sometimes it opens paths, sometimes it closes them. In some places it becomes a border, in others a connection. Like the Neris River between Aukštaitija and Žemaitija,” says Professor Alfredas Bumblauskas.

The flow of history depends on our ability to move forward. A person who stops moving, according to A. Bumblauskas, becomes dangerous both to themselves and to others: “If a person says they have already lived through everything, they are either very dangerous or very foolish.”

This is a discussion about how rivers shape civilizations and why freedom requires constant effort, in the podcast “Beyond Economics and Back” with Professor Alfredas Bumblauskas and the president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), Elena Leontjeva.