Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon.

[…]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]

What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term . . . are perfectly evident to all. Bush made his bed during his first four years, and now he has to lie in it.

OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.