Hello again, you and I don’t interpret failure the same way. I see what you mean . Society as a whole does not teach to approach life with a healthy dose of skepticism but blind materialism. Wall Street treats life as a commodity and it influences everything and all human interactions. If the global debt bubble is almost five times the global GDP then many things that we take for granted will eventually fail. Stoicism is very valuable but unfortunately it is not taught in high schools. Nor are natural laws which shape reality. Learning should be a joy, not pain but i agree: inflated egos will always cause failure as a curse. I’m all about metaphysics and spirituality — and blog a lot about these topics. What you see as “built-in”, can be fixed with the appropriated education in my view. But that would not be a good thing for those who want to rule populations ☺