On the other hand, when you meet your match, no extra effort will be necessary to impress them. Education and work have taken on a religious quality. People are so sure that they are good that they made them symbols for goodness. Because work must proceed product, there is sense in projecting the value of the product to the work. However, even the truest seeming associations can be false, partly because cause and effect are so interwoven.
Associations are like generalizations, categorizations, and statistics.
They must sacrifice detail to bring you their wide focus, making you prone to error when conditions change. Using associations without checking to see if they are true is statistical freeloading, which can't be done forever. Survival of the fittest can't keep things too nice, because it doesn't act in times of plenty. This is why many people have bad vision. Governments, laws, beauracracy, curriculum, language, traditions etc. decay, but individual books, mechanical designs and some procedures do not.