“Examining the record of its past, the progressive society reconstructs it as history, that is, as a significant series of events which constitute a destiny, a motion toward specific temporal goals for the society as a whole. The fabricators of such histories easily forget that their selection of ‘significant’ events from the record is subjectively determined—largely by the need to justify the immediate political steps which they have in mind. History exists as a force because it is created or invented here and now.”

— Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman