It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. For human freedom is largely a matter of imaging alternative futures and then choosing among them. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. The only living life is in the past and future . . .
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
All issues are political issues. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. Chance is always powerful.