Competition

I woke up this morning and somehow, the topic was competition and how it affects the human being.

Many might make the claim that competition makes our society great, or how we would be in the stone age if there wasn't competition driving our technology forward. It occurs to me, however that most of the societal ills that are present in our world are due to competition. Greed is the major symptom of this fear of surviving that feeds competition. It is a part of the old, Darwinian model that is being phased-out by a new step in evolution. It is a step into symbiosis.

It is not something that is new, the human body is an example of it. All the cells work in harmony to achieve work. If these cells became competitive, then the body would fail and become diseased. Perhaps cancer is a form of this, for as far as I know, cancer is a ball of competitive cells that attack and infiltrate the body, robbing it of blood and destroying its surroundings.

Psychologically, competition is a sense of separateness that is the core of violence. Violence is not possible unless there is a sense of separateness. I must survive over you. This is also the root of suffering, this sense of 'I' on the level of form and ego. The 'I' is alone and afraid. It must survive. It sees others as either aiding in its survival or threatening its survival, both physically and (more frighteningly) psychologically.

I think that the cult of competition will ultimately fail.