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| Parker:
--- Quote from: E-Kul on July 24, 2014, 08:37:27 AM ---People in privileged positions always believe they did something special to earn such good fortune. It makes them feel better to think they are smarter, harder working, better looking etc etc. It would be way too much of a blow to their ego to acknowledge in the Universal lottery of organised chaos they just got lucky. --- End quote --- He was using his father as an example. |
| Papper:
Jim Carrey should do some funny faces and dance around for our amusement. |
| MCWAY:
--- Quote from: E-Kul on July 24, 2014, 08:37:27 AM ---People in privileged positions always believe they did something special to earn such good fortune. It makes them feel better to think they are smarter, harder working, better looking etc etc. It would be way too much of a blow to their ego to acknowledge in the Universal lottery of organised chaos they just got lucky. --- End quote --- The flip side is people who are envious of those in privileged positions like to think that the objects of their disdain just got lucky. It soothes their ego and excuses their relative lack of accomplishment. Or as they say, luck equals preparation plus opportunity. |
| Radical Plato:
--- Quote from: MCWAY on July 24, 2014, 09:00:20 AM ---The flip side is people who are envious of those in privileged positions like to think that the objects of their disdain just got lucky. It soothes their ego and excuses their relative lack of accomplishment. Or as they say, luck equals preparation plus opportunity. --- End quote --- Personally, I couldn't think of anything worse than to be rich and famous and a puppet to even more rich and famous people. Just because you have more wealth than others doesn't mean you are successful. This is the mistake people like Jim Carrey make, pretending he is successful, while those who haven't made a fortune are failures. In my eyes, the majority of these types of people are failures, they have sold out and live disingenuously. But I understand it's important for the average punter who is deeply unsatisfied with his life and feeds into the Cultural relativism of the day to have something to aspire to even if only subconsciously they know they will never achieve it regardless of how hard they work or how much failure they risk. For every Jim Carrey there are countless others treading the same path with as much talent and working just as hard and risking failure who never make it. Good fortune is the secret, but fame and wealth gets to people and their egos start telling them how great they are and how they are more deserving etc etc. For most people they can't stand the thought that success and failure are down to cosmic randomness with no apparent logic guiding the process. They prefer to believe they control their destinies regardless of how much evidence their is to the contrary. If you actually believe ridiculous new age cliches like " luck equals preparation plus opportunity." you have no concept of what luck actually is. But if believing in ridiculous slogans helps you get through the day, then so be it. |
| Dokey111:
--- Quote from: E-Kul on July 24, 2014, 09:25:31 AM ---Personally, I couldn't think of anything worse than to be rich and famous and a puppet to even more rich and famous people. Just because you have more wealth than others doesn't mean you are successful. This is the mistake people like Jim Carrey make, pretending he is successful, while those who haven't made a fortune are failures. In my eyes, the majority of these types of people are failures, they have sold out and live disingenuously. But I understand it's important for the average punter who is deeply unsatisfied with his life and feeds into the Cultural relativism of the day to have something to aspire to even if only subconsciously they know they will never achieve it regardless of how hard they work or how much failure they risk. For every Jim Carrey there are countless others treading the same path with a much talent and working just as hard and risking failure who never make it. Good fortune is the secret, but fame and wealth gets to people and their egos start telling them how great they are and how they are more deserving etc etc. For most people they can't stand the thought that success and failure are down to cosmic randomness with no apparent logic guiding the process. They prefer to believe they control their destinies regardless of how much evidence their is to the contrary. If you actually believe ridiculous new age cliches like " luck equals preparation plus opportunity." you have no concept of what luck actually is. But if believing in ridiculous slogans helps you get through the day, then so be it. --- End quote --- Don't worry |
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