This sickly feeling stems in large part from the question: if people can't learn this lesson from history - what the hell am I doing in this job?
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
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