[tairos]

I'm not overly concerned with validating myself in the eyes of lesser people by "accomplishing something." What does that even mean? Usually nothing of lasting value. Typically, that's going to mean making money, accruing fame for some meaningless shush and jive routine or, more rarely, feeding a bunch of Third World peasants or something. The greatest achievement one can effect in my estimation is the uplift of the (human) race, which it to say, continuing or reestablishing the upward trajectory of its genetic pedigree. So, I see more of value in the idle cognitive elite than a highly motivated mediocrity spinning ever faster its gerbil wheel.