Avotcja, who works in the penal system, said, “The difference between the ones in jail and us is that they get caught.”
The winners—The difference between winners and losers is that the winners get picked.
Maybe that’s the only difference. Right and wrong, good and bad; who are the judges who declare one winner over the others? Majority rules even if they are dead wrong. Famous today, gone tomorrow are the American idols. Isn’t it still true that most artists and writers become known only after they are dead?
My dad used to tease me, said I’m a sour grape. Maybe, but that’s only because he likes his grapes sweet.
“Right and wrong, good and bad; who are the judges who declare one winner over the others? Majority rules even if they are dead wrong.”
“Dead wrong” according to whose value system? Yours? Then the answer to your question of “who are the judges” is–you. Judgments occur only in contexts. In our individualistic culture, we tend to believe that if we ask “who” we will get an answer. But a person–a “who”–in one context may act quite differently from the way he/she would act in another context. Not “who” but “what”–what context. Where does this value system come from? And can it be changed? (Value systems come out of myths, mythological thinking. How can you change a myth?)
Will Bob Dylan be known only after he is dead? Will John Ashbery?