I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.