What do we do with what we’re given?

An inquiry into inheritance

The NYC High Line: repurposed track

There have been various writers and thinkers of many different sorts who have tried to answer the question — or at least to pose it clearer terms so that some future thinker might answer it — of what can we do with what we’re given? There is the famous quote from Marx’s Brumaire:

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please…