Greatness

Chuck Klosterman looks at Phil Jackson and at what makes a man great. It's an interesting column, and it was pretty good, up until paragraph #10. There it becomes crystal clear that he looks at failure not as a necessary contrast to success, a way to dramatize events, part of the whole picture of a person, but rather as a good thing, period. He even uses the Red Sox as an example, saying that "Ten minutes after the 2004 World Series, that franchise was no longer captivating, and all their long-suffering fans immediately became lost, boring and strangely self-absorbed. Today, being a Red Sox fan is almost meaningless." I'll admit to the self-absorption, but if what I am is meaningless, long live lack of meaning!