Message #13907

[uselesslegs]

Like or_hate the speech, it did what it was suppose to do, define success the way it's suppose to be defined. For 30 years now, the definition of success has been hi-jacked to work in tandem along side, and almost exclusively with, monetary gains. Success can indeed be financial, but it is not solely the only gauge. Everything else that didn't involve huge sums was stripped from the equation...and in many instances they were reassigned "trivial" or "almost laughable" status...and with that we saw their "worthiness" re-evaluated and reassigned a place of lesser importance to our society and culture.

The result of such a drastic manipulation of values and "success" almost destroyed this country economically, because we allowed financial success to become the singular qualifier for accomplishment. That ignores the many other components of success...and it's so tragic and so anti-community/society. I'm thrilled this corrosive one sided reality is going to be part of the conversation now. Success is MANY things, including financial prosperity, but not ONLY financial prosperity.