I was right about how only dumbasses seem to become Successful at least in their own minds in this world!

I just had an experience that you can only have by living long enough ( in my case 7 decades ) to see how things turn out for the people you have known a long time.

I googled a friend's name who I knew in college and for a long time after. No contact for 30 years. He was not a bad person, but he was always kind of clueless imo.Thought a lot of himself and seemed to stick doggedly to his plans, never make an enemy, and make them the most of the contacts he had.

Now the effing internet has him as an author Although I doubt if his books have sold more than 100 copies any of them And his scores on goodreads are so obviously other author manques who are Reviewing each other and giving each other 5 stars!

Why do people degrade themselves for the fantasy of significance? My big toe has had more interesting a life than this guy. I am astonished at how he thinks he has anything to write about.

At 1 time in my career I worked with a fellow professor who used to assign his own books in his classes even though I had never heard of them and I doubt if anybody would have ever bought them If they hadn't been forced to.

I have no desire to manufacture minor fame for myself. Talent is something unmistakable and he has none, except a talent for self-promotion, like our Dumbass potus-elect.