This chapter is over twice as long as a regular chapter, but it isn't a double chapter. Just a really long one.
What is success?
More specifically, what is being successful?
Some would reduce the measure of success to the measure of its consequences.
While it is true that consequences make for an easy metric to measure success, it is but the smoke of the fire. There is no smoke without fire, but there is fire without smoke.
It is also to note that the particular smoke that is the consequence of success tends to often be unnoticeable, and rarely traces back to its origin.
So, can one use the consequences of success as a measure of success? No. Unless,
ClemCaI'm really proud of that discourse at the start. It is actually inspired by the structure of a piece of modern rhetoric. It's a text in French that sounds a bit too grandiloquent but has undeniable quality, so I took the basic idea of the argumentation and used it for my own purpose. If you wonder, the original argumentation was about the situation in the suburbs and whether the state was responsible for its situation, and if it was, was it entirely responsible. It compares the people in the suburbs with babies to demonstrate that the state cannot reasonably treat everyone as babies and ignore individual responsibility. It's part of a movie that treats both sides of the argument. We're at the 10 last percents of the story. Developing an SF Earth for these 10% was 100% worth it.
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