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> Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing al
by rexpop 5y ago
> Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
— Ad Hominem, 1852
- wolverine876 5y agoLook how much the world has changed since then!
- rexpop 5y agoI think it is fair to say that some aspects of the human condition will never, by definition, change.
- wolverine876 5y agoThat doesn't really assert anything. Many aspects will change dramatically, and often they are aspects that nobody previously imagined possible. The people who believe in change and possibility are the ones who do good things. The question is, what can we change and how much? When people don't want change, they pull out that parent argument and apply it, through some general claim, and not actually address the issue at hand.