Which reminds me of an old Girl Scout Camp song,
We're great but no one knows it,
no one knows it so far.
But one day they'll realize
how wonderful we are.
They'll look at us and point at us
and then they'll shout "hooray!"
We're great, no one knows it,
but they will some day!
Trust the Girl Scouts to put their finger on an existential truth, and with a catchy tune, too.
But what's so great and so quintessentially Girl Scout campish about the song is the "we"--attributing this familiar highly individual statement of naive ambition to a collective; and such a plucky, all-for-one-and-one-for-all collective at that.
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