In another article (1) I commented that it is very important what I was thinking the author of a famous phrase that came to our days to get our attention.
They said that it is really useful to know that we could interpret that thought today.
This is because everything is determined, not only by its context (historical, political, geographical), but also by the ideology of the author.
Knowing what the sender meant only that thought could be useful to his biographers and eventually for historians, but for anyone else.
The expression everywhere says: "The institutions fail victims of their own success" and, in line with what I just said, I'm interested to know what he meant Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), when the said.
I want to know if the idea contained in that sentence might be true today and why.
The first thing that comes to mind is that the word "success" seems strikingly to the English word "exit" (exit).
This leads me to think that the phrase means: "The institutions fail when they reach their goal ... the door" out "... the end of its reason to exist ... when it has no more reason to run. "
If we look at the individual, marriages (institution) fail when they run out of new challenges, interests, uncertainties.
Another idea that we can think of today, and give us practical utility means that when something becomes successful, is likely to lower the level of effort, targeting, interest, concern, all of which predispose the failure of any enterprise.
Thinking of our individual level, the phrase might suggest today that when we feel close to success, change of activity.
Note: Original in Spanish (without
translation by Google): El
éxito que provoca un fracaso
(This is the Article No. 1643)
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