No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.