Weirdly, it seems like there's almost always way more information in a failure than in a success. If you make something and it breaks, the next iteration will be better than the previous attempts. If you try to attain a skill, like learning to juggle, failure is a necessary ingredient.
That is a pretty good clue that any utopian civilization is really a stagnant, dark age. It's also a very good clue that a concept like "anamnesis" or "as above, so below" and other solipsistic philosophies are nonsensical. There is some aspect of innate, or inborn knowledge that connects our internal world with the external material world, but of course, all knowledge and learning came and comes from the whole.
Oligarchies and kingdoms and other forms of government that have a pretense of infallibility will be stagnant, regressing and doomed to collapse. The "asiatic despot" model makes for a stagnant population and civilization. There's really no perfection because there's no fixed forms, nor ideal forms.
Lots of people avoid failure for fear of ridicule, or because they've been trained to fear or have some other emotional reaction to failure. Embracing failure as a chance to learn something is the healthy outlook.
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