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One of the ideas presented in the play is that of a student seeking praise or affirmation from his former teacher. I think that’s a powerful motive for many people, and that operates in a very unexamined fashion. But what terms do we define success? Well, one is the judgement of teachers and how many of us spend much of lives working to meet the expectations of teachers who are no longer part of our lives? And what do teachers use as their yardsticks and barometers of success. You guessed it, the praise and affirmation of their teachers, and so the whole thing regresses into the past, to the judgements of nameless, inferior and ignorant pedagogues of the past.
Now capitalism has other ways of measuring success, and the making the sale is an imporant one. Here we can esteem the work of advertisers who manipulate perceptions and contexts to accomplish that very thing. They, like Heisenberg and Bohr, re-frame our existence and then show us how we had it all wrong.

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