While mining the Internet for whatever it is I mine for, I came across this little gem by ee cummings:
Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
sucess than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarassing for both
parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard
Humanity i love you because
when you’re hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you’re flush your pride keeps
you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually commitings
nuisances but more
especially in your own house
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
lifer in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
always making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you
Moreover, I quite enjoy the first part, “because you would rather black the boots of / sucess than enquire whose soul dangles from his / watch-chain which would be embarassing for both / parties” – Essentially, we admire success, and, in doing so, condone all the misdeeds that lead to success.
Finding out who you are and what that means, is the only real success.