Winning

Base your life on false premise and all that follows is also wrong. Our present day fascination with divisiveness stems from a mistaken view of Darwinism. Survival always depends on diversity and the symbiosis of seemingly disparate living elements. Life is more about cooperation than conquering.

Certainly there are predators and prey but both survive. To cheer the lion and decry the lamb is pure nonsense. Whether in a hive or a pride individualism is transcient or unregocnizable. Alphas get old and are replaced, queens exhaust their eggs and men seek the invisible hand to guide them.

Simple minded capitalists like Allan Greenspan expecting man made contrivances like markets to respond naturally while ignoring the human propensity toward sin was so wrong it nearly ruined us. Greed, laziness, envy, anger, pride, gluttony and covetousness are deadly for a reason. These are individual failures but when they are allowed to collude and gain acceptance failure is always the outcome. The resistance to regulation is prideful avoidance of the inevitable. Scoundrels require chastisment rather than appeasement. The Chinese take the most corrupt executives out and shoot them. In America they get a big bonus.

Winning is a losing concept; in the circle of life we are all survivalists. Ascendancy always results in downfall. Humility is unpopular and when one grace falls all the others falter. Teaching children to speak their unformed minds before acquiring the basics of good manners results in adults unable of forming dialogue. Society incapable of conversation and cooperation is doomed to failure.

Diversity and cooperation is inevitable and natural, insistance on monoculture, individualism and ascendancy is contrived, divisive and ruinous.

Community decides not the mob, the monarch or the grasping tyrant.