The Odyssey was entertainment, after all. Probably parts of the Bible as well. Sorry for sowing confusion. The good ol dialectic does its thing.
Success gives way to failure.
It seems obscure. But it's obviously false to say that everybody involved in chaotic change turns to higher wisdom. Most of them turn to hustling, since the problem for almost everybody is survival. If so, you are perhaps unique in apparently ignoring economic reality in favor of the transcendent. If not, you are extraordinarily privileged, as these things go.