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"By the
late 1940s a number of the more important advisers to
CIA and
State
Department psychological warfare campaigns had trained as Marxists at one
point or another during their careers, and were now applying dialectics and
other Marxian insights to the task of psychological warfare." - Christopher
Simpson, Science of Coercion
To control a population turn one
segment against another.
Find divisive issues like -
eugenics,
the death penalty,
homosexuality,
gun control,
permanent war,
transsexuality,
transhumanism.
To divide a unified target
population take advantage of an upheaval.
Use
thought police to initiate
political witch hunts.
Steal
taxpayer funds to fill
the financial
coffers of those in government.
Use
the
military-industrial-corporate-media complex to fight a
war on Iraq to keep
Halliburton,
Bechtel and the
oil tycoons empires
entact.
Competition in biology and
sociology, is a contest between two or more organisms, animals, individuals,
groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for a location of resources, for
resources and goods, for mates, for prestige, for recognition, for awards, for
group or social status, or
for leadership.
The duality of
competition requires some succeed while others fail.
Competition is essentially
detrimental to every aspect of social interaction.
Human relationships,
self-respect,
enjoyment, and
productivity all increase when individuals break out of the neurotic pattern of
relentless competition.
A narcissistic state of
mind requires competition.
Narcissitic individuals compete to
establish themselves as the most intelligent,
the most
attractive, or the wealthiest.
Narcissitic individuals compete because they desire acknowledgement,
recoginition and they do so in an attempt to be seen as
superior.
"Narcissism can be
conceptualized as a
self-regulating
system, where self-esteem and
enhancement are sought through a variety of
social means with little regard for the
consequences borne by others.
Agentic traits,
assertiveness,
extraversion, and
self-esteem are
all correlated.
Narcissism is associated with benefits to the
individual that are primarily affective and most evident in the short-term, but
the costs of narcissism are paid by others and, eventually, by the individual
in the long-term.
Narcissism may be positive in the short term for
individuals, but negative for other people, society, and the individual in the
long term." - Jean Twenge
American
concepts of competition rest
on false assumptions centered around the
concept of Social
Darwinism.
Most major accomplishments throughout human history have
been achieved simply out of a desire to discover or create and
not directly aimed
at.
Social
Darwinism is a late nineteenth century
ideology used to justify social
policies which make no
distinction between those who cause disaster and those who are left to pay to
clean up the mess.
Social Darwinism elevates
the notions of:
an annointed
messianic Supreme Leader, in ancient times
half man-half god
offspring of a sexual union
of a mortal woman and
a male procreator
god;
competition between "legal
persons" occurs on a
level playing field;
imperialism is justified as certain
'races' are superior.
The phrase 'survival of the
fittest' implies internal
struggle among members of a species is the overriding concern.
This
creates a purposeful fundamental
misunderstanding of the theory of
natural selection which states explicitly that survival is dependent upon
changing environmental factors.
"We've seen the gross misuse of
evolution - under the guise of Social Darwinism and the "survival of the fittest" -
to justify class
oppression, monopolies, and
imperialism." - David P. Barash
Group coöperation contributes far
more to reproductive success within the group than competitive inclinations of
individuals directed within the group.
Assume a single violently fierce
alpha male begins a slaughter with a single or multiple murder within a family,
a tribe or other small group.
Murder
consumes the group to
the point where there is a question of the continued viability.
If the
other males are all wiped out then if reproduction continues it will be between
close family members and the genetic pool will suffer.
An example can
be seen recently in history with the experience of Fletcher Christian and
mutineers of the Bounty who settled on Pitcairn Island.
John Adams was
the sole male survivor of a party landing
a decade before.
Direct physically confrontational competition has
always been, and still is, a risky strategy that rarely pays
off.
Raising human offspring
is a difficult time consuming undertaking.
Those who coöperate are
more likely to be
reproductively successful.
Successful groups have a predisposition for
coöperation in offspring.
Coöperation is pervasive within any
successful grouping of humans.
The second myth is competition mints
ÜbermenschSelf-respect and self-esteem is best built outside of
competitive
frameworks.
Huckleberry is unable to solve an
arithmetic problem.
The
teacher asks Huckleberry to think carefully.
Huckleberry is unable to
answer when unwanted attention is directed.
But attention hounds have no
such problem waving hands and sighing.
Finally Morn is called upon and
proudly delivers the correct solution.
The failure of
Huckleberry made it
possible for Morn to succeed.
To a Hopi or
Lakota, Morn's performance would be seen
as cruel.
Competition must occur in ALL
cultures to be a part of human nature.
No
behavior can be an innate trait if a
single culture does not exhibit it !
The third myth is that competition is 'fun'. Play is fun. Playful competition can be fun. Competiton can be
defeating.
The original concept of
play emphasizes process before outcome.
Once you introduce a 'need',
an outcome, to any acvtivity then you have shifted the nature of the activity
engaged in from 'play' to 'work'.
Play is for fun while work is
for survival.
Two children sit on
opposite sides of a checker board.
A marker is placed on the middle square and the children are told that
they will take turns moving the marker one square at a time for a total of 20
moves.
If a child gets the marker to his side of the board, he will
receive a prize.
The game will be played again (4 times total), and the
other child will go first.
Four-and-five-year-old, Anglo-American and
Mexican-American children almost
universally helped one another take turns in winning.
The child who
goes second moves the marker in the direction of the first child's goal so
virtually every game ends with the first child getting a prize.
These
children had 'fun' and are happy.
Among seven-to-nine-year-olds the
pattern changes completely.
Both Anglo-American and Mexican-American
children that watch
television prevent anyone from winning 50 to 80 per cent of the time.
These children are not
happy. These children
did not have 'fun'.
Mexican children seven-to-nine-year-olds with
little contact with MICE
culture managed to coöperate and earn prizes in a
majority of the games.
They had 'fun' and were happy.
The fourth myth is that competitive
frameworks make for the
highest levels of productivity.
High levels
of conscious
orientation toward mastery
of skills are found among high achievers, but top achievers show low levels
of competitiveness.
Competitiveness consistently correlates negatively
with achievement.
Those high in achievement were low in competitiveness
as they were focused on the task at hand and were not concerned about
monitoring performance.
competitive truth
"The real alternative to being number one is not
being number two but being psychologically free enough to dispense with
rankings all together."- Alfie Kohn
"Television shows like
American Idol and The Bachelor teach us, things that are merely
enjoyed - like singing and falling in 'love" - are
piteously wasted. You have
to make them into contests." - Meghan DaumA belief in
the 'benefit of competition' infects
American
consciousness.
Competition,
an entrenched part of American popular culture, is
carcinogenic to education,
business and politics
leaving rotting carcasses.
Competition can
undermine individual growth as well as
human relationships.
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