The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

不读书的人并不比不识字的人强。

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.