Turned into a stadium crowd or the circus

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Turned into a stadium crowd or the circus

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People who love competition are considered thriving, and it all started with a huge misconception from the notion that competition generates positive results.

It may be, but at what cost?

To produce a single winner, we need all the other countless competitors to be losers, this for a country, for an army, for a company, for a corporation, for a family that does not expect only one of the family members to be a true triumph, the mother wants all her children to be very successful, the failure of any other of her children cannot be compensated for by the enormous success of just one of them.

We continue to encourage the heroes of humanity, without realizing the enormous damage that single out one among the others causes in the minds of the losers, the anonymous, that's why we see Germany continue to import Turkish workers since the 1976's because young Germans prefer to be unemployed than those functions that German society has reserved for the role of losers, losers, losers, are: plumbers, mechanics, garbage collectors, cooks, bricklayers, carpenters, carpenters, waiters, drivers , the paramedics, anyway; all: the gravediggers, and stretchers, those who make society work without being seen and recognized; such as: janitors, delivery men, porters, motoboys, delivery men; those that make society have: comfort, cleanliness, cleanliness, order, health, food, and supply, well-being and leisure.

Many of these despised professions sometimes receive very high remuneration, more than professions not considered worthy by society, but those who have the courage to exercise and face prejudice can have a very comfortable and financially peaceful life, as long as they don't pay attention to the opinion of the affluent society.

This social madness has taken us to the other extreme of social life; where what people think about what other people are thinking; and, what people think the other thinks they are thinking; so they end up thinking what others think he is thinking; and this game continues to push people into a silent competition where even political party candidates are objects of social status dispute; he wants to know if his candidate is dumber and poorer than my candidate, because whoever follows his candidate is a morally, intellectually, financially and ethically inferior person; all others are my adversaries; and anything can be an arena for the contention of social status: my football team that I accompany is superior to the other's; the city where I was born is superior to the city where the other was born; my country is superior to the other; the other race is inferior to my ethnicity, so competition does more harm than good to civilization.

How long are we going to adore competition as a social stimulus for humanity? Cooperation, not competition is what we need.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político