We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
We are capitalism made flesh.