You think you just fell out a coconut tree? Men make their own history, but they don't make it as they please; they don't make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
It's like watching northern Dems post-war desperately try to avoid reusing the Gettysburg address, but with the "ghosts of past generations weigh like a nightmare" quote
