Sunday, May 06, 2007

Is the love of victory a crime?

Is the love of winning a crime? Mike Ditka didn't think so. In fact one day his team was losing, during a halftime locker room tyrade he punched a locker and broke his wrist. Why not encourage this kind of hatred of losing? And an equal, opposite love of winning? I'll tell you why people refuse to raise their kids like this (in other words, right), because they are subconsciously communist. Why they encourage mediocrity and no seperation between the winners and losers (even though it plays out like that in life- there are usually distinct winners and losers). In fact that is why people don't encourage their kids to compete whenever possible, friendly or not, they don't like the way it looks, even though it creates tougher, more resilient, and probably smarter people. In short it prevents humans from becoming better at everything (in other terms, evolving), look in asia, very competitive, China and Japan are catching up to the US economically, the US is falling behind due to lack of competition. So what is today's lesson, competitivety leads to success through constant improving to stay ahead of the pack. Why bother teaching your kids anything but how to compete in anything and inspiring them to do so. The celebration of victory should be allowed too, as well as the mourning of what could have been victory, why not encourage these things?

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