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Every generation must renew the compact with greatness.
That's why so many children of brilliant and powerful men and woman go on to do absolutely nothing at all. They have every advantage, genetics, money and even the spark of genius and they get nowhere.
Why?
Because they didn't put in the work to earn it. They thought it was their divine right.
Each person must earn their own statue in the pantheon of the ages.
In advanced societies it happens as well, just more subtly. We're taught to believe in our own greatness and superiority above all else but never to question anything at all.
Greatness isn't passed on like the color of your eyes. It's not inherited from the great generations of the past.
It's earned.