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I genuinely don't know how to respond to your comment. It's obvious that the real world is not made of mutually exclusive scenarios.

• forgottenpass 12y ago
  Unless you define everywhere on the spectrum of cultural attitudes towards failure as either "failure culture" or "Italy-like", you're beginning to understand my frustration with your first post.
  • patorjk 12y ago
    I think they're just making a point about what the absence of any kind of acceptance of failure is like. It's not that there's a spectrum between "failure culture" and "Italy-like", it's that "failure culture" itself is the spectrum, and Italy-like is the point at the very end. It's what happens people don't respect failure.
    • forgottenpass 12y ago
      OK, I think I get it. But that's what I've been taking issue with all along. There is little substance is running to the polar opposite as the only alternative. And the system of categorization seems like tee-ing up for just-so stories about the benefits of "failure culture" and "acceptance of failure."