"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." – Karl Marx, 1852.
Marx is writing about the memory of the period of the French Revolution, which is 50~60 years old at that point.
It's a bit like us remembering the Korean War.
What I'm listening to right now.
Animal Collective, "Today's Supernatural."