Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?