How many words can fit on a headstone on a grave? "IT IS WHAT IT IS. HE DID WHAT HE DID. HE IS WHAT HE IS." Fitting?

What better way to relegate all of us to total insignificance after our existence. But then, that's the road this nation has chosen to travel. All emphasis on the collective with a complete ignoring of the individual. I choose to believe that the actions and innovations of the individual determine the destiny of the "collective". But if I am right, there would be no reason to revise history and destroy monuments.