The classic song Starry Starry Night contains the lines:
I could have told you,
Vincent
This world was never
meant for one as beautiful as you.
I never thought much about it before, but now it makes
sense. This world is a place for tarts and testosterone-charged tough guys,
both actually and figuratively. It’s a world in which value and success are not
measured in self-contained terms, but in terms that are linear and vertical. It’s
all about having more or being seen to be better than other people.
And that’s why when I hear the word ‘ambition’ (as opposed
to ‘aspiration’) used in terms which suggest it’s a desirable quality, I have
to turn away. To me it isn’t, it’s just one of many signs that, to use a
Buddhist analogy, the monkey in man continues to have dominion over the angel.
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