There is an elderly gentleman -almost ninety years old. You might feel distaste if you see him abusing other people. But there is a clear reason: According to his children, due to family reasons and historical background of prewar, he couldn't go to high-school and has academic complex. While he is worth enough appealing life experience and wisdom brought by age, he is eager to flaunt around how he is intellectual and clever even without much school education. Without the habit of abusing, he would be respected as an intelligent elderly gentleman with a lot of life experience and wisdom... As is often said, ill-nature hides inferiority complex
. Whatever... today's main story:
Because positive competition can be a good energy and driving force for improvement
. However... as I was typing a draft before translation, I came up- Sense of values seems to be diversified but simplified, and evaluation standard is limited
. Children are measured by standardized achievement test, and children who cannot get good score feel that their value is rejected -and hold a sense of alienation. If we are imprinted with the standardized form of happiness and value ourselves with comparison, It seems that especially women try to show off their superiority to other women -sometimes things unrelated with themselves, such as husbands' job and income, layout of their places. And trivial things can explode into bully. Recently, this is described as mounting activity
-the living habits of monkeys.
A question to ask all the parents, husbands, and men with lovers: If your daughter or wife or lover is eager in mounting activity, do you try to stop her? -But first of all, it might be necessary to question whether men do such things, too. bullies? A question to ask sex pests menagain: Is it OK to label that such men like you must have been educated that men are superior to women, and mean to vie with women? Ultimate question to ask: Do you want to end up in an abusing wrinkly mentioned at the opening?
At the social end:There are But some winners don't return profits they won from competition to society -as if they complain they still don't have enough no matter how much they have. That can lead to the monopolistic wealth -also,exploitation. Many books about self-empowerment and business skill teach how to be top twenty-percent -how to take more from limited resources.
I wonder how we can compete in positive way, or how each person can live their own lives helping each other. In society where failure means finish or even death, challenge is nothing but danger.
Then, less and less people take risk and challenge. Or some people take easier way to dislodge others. In short... negative wrong competition leads to decline
, for both individual and society -did I jump illogically?