"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
01/21/2016 at 03:19 • Filed to: Late-nite Question Time, Wheelerguy Wonders, Musings
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"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
01/21/2016 at 03:19 • Filed to: Late-nite Question Time, Wheelerguy Wonders, Musings | 0
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I asked the questions below. As I’m in the greys there and Burneko, a heartless man, didn’t reply, I’ll ask it here.
Two cars first. The second one’s below, then the question comes after that.
So now I ask: what, then, is success? What is a win? If trying to make sense of the world and even giving up trying to is still part of the joke, if failure is the resolution and the bottomline, if every plan goes out of whack, what is the concept of success, achievement, and winning? What’s happening during Sebastian Vettel’s win in Singapore last year in a “only very nearly getting there” Ferrari Formula One car?
Surely, just like Usain Bolt winning the 200-meter run, that Coyote can finally have lunch and dinner and get a bus back to town (without said bus hitting him, of course) to feast on some more substantial food? And that not only he can, but he did, and he had?
Or... is success nothing more but an illusion? Is success, is victory, is a positive achievement, an illusion? I refuse to believe such, because there is a myriad of proof that success exists, and you have evidence in your life that success is real and leverages facets of your life.
Also... what’s a MacGuffin in the joke of life? Is success, is the goal of winning or leveling up, the MacGuffin?
If you reply there and happen to have star power even on The Concourse, wicked. If you reply here on this particular thread, excellent.
Berang
> Wheelerguy
01/21/2016 at 04:01 |
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I still have no idea what the original article is trying to get at.
That's gonna leave a mark!
> Wheelerguy
01/21/2016 at 07:38 |
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Yeah, like the full answer to this is almost a book and I’m thinking your knocking on the wrong door here. Perhaps the New Yorker magazine has readers who will take up the challenge.
My short answer - yes, no, maybe and never look for the man behind the curtain. If you need something definite in life, study the laws of physics.
RallyWrench
> Wheelerguy
01/21/2016 at 14:39 |
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CS and Rondeau M379, great way to get my attention!
Success depends on where you start. In the context of your F1 examples, for Marussia, scoring a point is success. For Lotus, just making the next race was a success last season. For Ferrari nothing less than a championship, indeed repeated championships, is success.
In life, the MacGuffin is money. Hard to move forward without it, no matter where you start from.