Are achievements in video games actually failures?
the “hopelessly lost” aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to doubt the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won’t escape it. So success becomes failure because it directly increases your lostness.
Video games lack that “hopelessly lost” aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back. (Right?). So I’m excluding them.
Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you’ll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.
If the benchmark of success is having the skills to do something in the “real world”, everything you do with a “real world” component would be successful including Mathematics, Creative writing, language skills, critical thinking skills, etc.
That’s a big if. And “real world” is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.
