If he visited more than once back then she may have greeted him many times until she was retired or repurposed . <| sep |> Well , Marshal Mcluhan does some pretty amazing work at explaining the rearview mirror thing . I believe he was also the first one to say Luke Skywalker was just another Billy the Kid rehashed , in the intro of The global village if I member correctly . He analizes very well this process from the perspective of younger generations trying to find their identities in TV retro fashion , ect and also from the violent ideological reactivism that cultural clash generates in a global environment . The link for the WWII is pretty clear in the not those stormtroopers , the real old ones quote by the mafia membrie . The Trump scenario , would easily remind us of the most orwellian parts of the twentieth century but I think we need to member a little more to find the clues . Huxley , sufragism , Ford and so on . Humanity has always compared the present to the past in order to imagine new futures , that ' s nothing new . Problem is , nowadays we think we can just buy the technology and the creative talent and use them to preserve our perceptions , social models and cultural identities intact . This is just failing to see that it has been precisely the shift in our perceptions , cultural identities and social models what has made cultural and technological progress possible in the first place imho .