I’ve recently come across a piece of rare discourse on the status of the ordinary man in the present society:

Alain de Botton – A Kinder Gentler Philosophy of Success

And for that i have to thank my endless source of pure wisdom. Ted also.

What makes it rare, I think, is neither its wit, nor the beauty of its saying. Moreover, among many other Ted discourses, you may even find it dull, uninteresting and why not, to all you genius scholars out there it might  appear as a piece of bestseller crap, which may as well be, as  its title might indicate. But what makes this  piece of speech fairly worthy of some price – hardly definable by our current standards, and as for its implicit uniqueness, even more worthy of such a price – is a rather more distinctive quality, seldom to be found in human discourse since Socrates and back, a quality that might just make the man entitled to the honor of parrhesiastes, a title probably just as good as having eaten from the fabulous Heavenly apple tree – a quality consisting in spotting – in a moment of crystal pure awareness, I am sure – consisting in spotting and communicating the plain, crystal truth, in communicating something real. Which, however rooted in the accidental reality it may be, still surpasses many famous speeches on love or death or any other eternally human problem.

And as you run about this confusion inducing all fake color splashed world, wondering for a meaning of your day to day, no apparent purpose,  actions’ monotony which much too often get you apparently nowhere, you might find in this speech a shade of comfort for your earthly earthling despair.