Thinking that everybody understand life as a pass or fail exercice is neurotic mindset projection. We have no idea about how Otlet experienced his existence. COVID put brakes on a lot of life projects... are these humans all failures?
There is intelectual life outside the Boomer-Brains their Corporate-Pax-Americana-Safety-Bubble. Here is a list of loosers to ponder about ;
Obviously I am all in studying the past in order to not repeat the same mistakes. But please, do it without the self whipping of clasifying humans as 'exceptionals' and 'failures'. Getting a few bruises along the way might help to open your mind and help you becoming yourself.
There is intelectual life outside the Boomer-Brains their Corporate-Pax-Americana-Safety-Bubble. Here is a list of loosers to ponder about ;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
Obviously I am all in studying the past in order to not repeat the same mistakes. But please, do it without the self whipping of clasifying humans as 'exceptionals' and 'failures'. Getting a few bruises along the way might help to open your mind and help you becoming yourself.