If you try real hard to get something done, and that thing ends up not getting done, then you failed. That doesn’t mean your attempts were invalid or worthless or the at you shouldn’t be celebrated for putting in the effort—but it doesn’t mean you succeeded at anything.
I guess that’s a way of looking at it. Ultimately, however, the human project is never about one generation of impact. Any “success” or “failure” of a person’s impact is more nuanced than a binary, even if the binary framing can make for a compelling narrative.
Reich had significant successes to the point of actively slowing the trend of workers losing rights that plagued the 1970s and 80s.
If you try real hard to get something done, and that thing ends up not getting done, then you failed. That doesn’t mean your attempts were invalid or worthless or the at you shouldn’t be celebrated for putting in the effort—but it doesn’t mean you succeeded at anything.
I guess that’s a way of looking at it. Ultimately, however, the human project is never about one generation of impact. Any “success” or “failure” of a person’s impact is more nuanced than a binary, even if the binary framing can make for a compelling narrative.
Reich had significant successes to the point of actively slowing the trend of workers losing rights that plagued the 1970s and 80s.
Nice for those people. All that work tossed in the trash.