We live day and day

By Steve

Sat, 28 Feb 2015
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Our work becomes harder day by day

as things get easier for everyone else.

 

We wonder, "What are we protecting?"

People work and play, we sacrifice our lives

as missionaries

spies

or members of the military

while people come and play.

 

Our words have grown cold

frozen and turned into icicles.

 

To do right is hard,

long-suffering and in the end

no one cares,

everyone wants to know who won.

 

All the plans must come together

at the right time...

 

and now

the rich buy more and more toys,

eyes covered with competition and envy

and see

the rest of the world as failures.

 

But what are we living for...

there is no security anymore,

there are no rules anymore,,,

 

so what home are we fighting for?

 

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Submitted by tibi popovici on

Steve, you make here a very good point.Our modern society become more hunger for competition. The reason of competition it's not completly understand, at least by me, how you pointed out: for play. Isn't that ridiculous? May be, but looks to be true.

Submitted by Steve on

I agree. The competititon is always won by people with the most status and money which makes the richer richer and the poor poorer.

It's like being back in high school in which you have to have the right car, the right zipcode, the right coolness...and it's a form of play to see who wins (I would call this Darwinian success of the favored traits of a species).

 

Submitted by tibi popovici on

Yes, the competition has a deep implication in our live and you definitely made a good point with Darwinian success. But my dilemma remains, really need to be like that? Do we really need the best car? Who's best car at the end? I have the strong feeling that will sink us down.

Glad to have this conversation, Steve!

Submitted by Steve on

This kind of competition is strongest in East Asia actually. It's a kind of collective competition. Did you ever watch, "A Brilliant Mind?" Diversification is a method of dealing with the singularity of competition. But truly, competition is supposed to tell us what we truly desire and to help us to authenticate ourselves, but it often doesn't. You climb the corporate ladder only to find out that you climbed up the wrong building.

Diversification has led to the death of the "Absolute" in corporate terms. There is no "value" then. We're heading toward a perfect monopoly which again will make the rich richer and the poor and middle class poorer. So we'll have different, unique products at similar prices and small businesses will generally be squeezed out.