If you believe in a brighter future, you live in a manner that reflects and helps create it. They say that history repeats itself, but at least the monarchs of old did have some skin in the game.

It's a verse from a Pink Floyd song that keeps coming back to my mind...

It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting its shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud