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Originally Posted by madcorgi
It's a particularly useful counterpoint in this time of ours where anything less than a great result--a win--is considered a miserable loss by a miserable loser.
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I agree we live in a time with some absurd standards both in the positive and negative spectrum.
It's like there is no middle and that you cannot be content or happy unless in the top .01 percent. Perhaps content and happy are luxuries we can no longer afford?
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Originally Posted by Zeke
I have often wondered about the qualifications of experts and critics although I don't refute they exist.
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I am weary of people self-proclaiming themselves as experts but can only taut credentials as evidence.
I suppose in a courtroom setting testimony by an expert witness is considered evidence, but when that so-called evidence is not collaborated by other material sources is it still valid?
Is expertise going to outweigh the facts?
Maybe just talk louder and be more insulting, that always works, so does ganging up with cronies and loyalists 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/opinion/the-good-enough-life-philosophy.html?fallback=0&recId=1HeuLmDvs2jUYNxdTTI93XJIRph&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=WA&recAlloc=home-geo&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-living-vi&imp_id=934129077&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage
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And it remains to be seen if we as a society can establish a good-enough relation to one another, where individuals and nations do not strive for their unique greatness, but rather work together to create the conditions of decency necessary for all.
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I've always wondered why so-called greatness seems to be at the expense of someone else. If truly great, would not others less great be spared by the hardships one places on them?
It is one thing to stand on the shoulders of giants, and yet another to stand on top of a pile of bodies laid beneath you by your own hand.