Failure, generations of school students learn by rote, is a pillar to success. We can’t be allowed to give up because failure must necessarily bear a moral lesson. Failure must amount to something bigger, better and brighter—in other words, it must end with success, no matter how long it takes. In the capitalist world view, failure is the key defining feature of humanity: “An ordinary human life is now a failure until proven otherwise,” Moran writes—but then, “no failure is wholly avoidable and no success will ever be quite enough, because both of them will always be someone else’s opinion”. Should failure or success matter at all then, since none of us can ever control the outcome of our efforts?

Source: Mint December 28, 2020 01:52 UTC