What future does the past have? We talk about rules and traditions, we talk about common sense and values, we talk about being offended and not being offended we talk, and go in circles—in circles. So, the question is: what future does the past have? We talk about learning from the past, we talk about knowing the rules before we break them, but what do we parse? We grab what we need, and if we don’t need it then we don’t learn from it. That’s not learning from the past—let me