We Admire People To The Extent That

A Disappointment Is Not Generally An Oversight. It Might Just Be The Best One Can Do The Situation Being What It Is. The Genuine Error Is To Quit Attempting.

Each Of Us Has Interests Which Conflict The Interests Of Everybody Else... 'everybody Else' We Call 'society'. It's A Powerful Opponent And It Always Wins. Oh, Here And There An Individual Prevails For A While And Gets What He Wants. Sometimes He Storms The Culture Of A Society And Changes It To His Own Advantage. But Society Wins In The Long Run, For It Has The Advantage Of Numbers And Of Age.

The Evolution Of Cultures Appears To Follow The Pattern Of The Evolution Of Species. The Many Different Forms Of Culture Which Arise Correspond To The "mutations" Of Genetic Theory. Some Forms Prove To Be Effective Under Prevailing Circumstances And Others Not, And The Perpetuation Of The Culture Is Determined Accordingly.

Unable To Understand How Or Why The Person We See Behaves As He Does, We Attribute His Behavior To A Person We Cannot See, Whose Behavior We Cannot Explain Either But About Whom We Are Not Inclined To Ask Questions.

We Admire People To The Extent That We Cannot Explain What They Do, And The Word 'admire' Then Means 'marvel At.'