The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or they may ignite and light up the sky.
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.