In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
Edward AbbeyI was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Edward AbbeyReply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Edward Abbey