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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
His definition: "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
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Who decides what's worthy and what's not? I suppose it's up to me to decide what I deem worthy. But then, if worthiness is self-realized or self-determined, then I guess the crackhead down the street is successful. For him, robbing the old lady and buying a nice fat rock is his progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Or what about Bernie Madoff? He had his worthy ideal. Hitler had what he considered a worthy ideal.
I guess the point is, 'worthy' is a term that's too subjective to be of any use.
You know, I've always found ideals to be very subjective and shallow because they're always imposed on us by someone else, some religion, philosophy, or by society or government.
I don't know, I don't want to come off as some contrarian. Am I missing something here, Baraka?