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I reckon it's probably happiness.

• marcosdumay 13y ago
  Thus, if it's happiness, success has no root at all in the objective reality, but is completely subjective... What is quite a hard thing to say, but sounds completely logical. And yeah, I'm removing the subject's brain from my definition of "objective reality". If I don't do that, "subjective" would be meaningless.
• richardsuber 13y ago
  Oooh, so close and yet so far. Counter-example: what if you're a happy slave? Would you consider that success? Slaves are Submissive, the lowest level of Presence. Their achieving happiness doesn't count for much. What if you're a happy servant? Or a happy minion? Already you can see this is more challenging, more ambitious, and more worthy of the appellation of 'success'. Now, everyone's conception of success will look different but it's obvious that Presence has something to do with it. Let's take Psychopaths as a reductive example. Con men and shills can be successful, but they're rather pathetic compared to, say, a Lord of War. Seen the movie? Now that guy was a huge success. Fostering wars across the planet, responsible for millions of deaths and uncountable destruction while snorting cocaine off of strippers' tits. What more could a Psychopath ask for? I would tell you what more a Psychopath could ask for except there's no doubt many psychopaths reading this and I don't want to give any of them ideas.