<-- I feel many of the Australian people feel the same... Ed.
The message seems to be that life is made up of winners and losers. If you are not number one or in the top five, you have failed. There doesn't seem to be any reward for simply succeeding at the level of doing one's best.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (part)
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (part)
Her: "Tell me something you have never told anyone else."
Me (whispering): "I think the Owl People are already among us."
Her: "Who??"
Me: "Holy moley!"