> most people in our profession get to choose their job Choose, yes, but from a finite set. > Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they plea

> most people in our profession get to choose their job Choose, yes, but from a finite set. > 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. — Karl Marx, "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"