Slate recently interviewed Vincent Kartheiser (aka Pete Campbell on Mad Men). In case we needed any reminders that human beings need love, not love-based-on-achievement, there’s this:
Slate: [Your character’s] a man of ambition, but he seems to get more unhappy the more he achieves. He’s achieved many of his goals—Trudy had the baby, he got a bigger office, he’s dominating Roger—but he seems to get crabbier by the week. Do you understand why he’s so unhappy?
Kartheiser: With success comes a level of sadness. You think, “I’ll reach this goal, and then I’ll feel a sense of completeness, of wholeness. I’ll feel that I have accomplished something. I will see myself as a worthy man.” And it doesn’t really exist.
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Great post AZ. This season so far is off.the.hook. My wife laughed our donkeys off during that fight scene. Still the best show on TV…
Eccles. 1:18 (ESV)
For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
That verse haunts my life…. The flip side is, ignorance is bliss.
I believe Madonna said the same thing back in the 90’s. Madonna.