The people who think that life is a competition, have already lost. They just don't know it yet, they have no one around to tell them the truth...
The shrink-wrapped Idiocracy has reduced everything in life to a binary competition consisting of 'winners' and 'losers'. The very essence of competition is conformity. We are not competing unless we are all swimming in the same direction. What good would it be if someone took an interest in something individualistic outside of sports, politics, and entertainment? We would have nothing to small talk about.
This binary mentality pervades all aspects of life, case in point politics. The idea is to do or say 'whatever' it takes for the blue team to win. Then they get to raid the public cookie jar for four years. Unless the red team wins, then it's their turn instead. Regardless of which corrupt rent-seeking political party "wins" the election, the majority lose. In order for someone to 'win', someone has to lose. That's life. The status quo political system can't fix the problem, it is the problem.
Same with the economy - a zero sum game. Winners and losers. Actually ever fewer winners and ever more losers. Musical chairs where every time there's a recession fewer and fewer people come out of it intact. Profits versus wages, someone has to lose.
As one would expect of a sporting society, there is a strict aversion to losing and losers. Hence, per the concept of survival bias, we only ever hear about the winners. And of course they always deserve their victories. If only we could all be as hard-working and successful as the slumdog billunaires.
As we go through this clusterfuck now approaching its brick wall ending, the buffoons get louder and more shrill. Their ideas more and more asinine, as they get painted deeper into the corner. Never once admitting they have no fucking clue what they are doing.
If Donald Trump is successful it's solely because this society went down the path of venerating circus clowns a long time ago. Cautious introspection, and quiet intelligence got thrown out the window in favour of loud, shoot from the lip, half-truth charlatans.
For the people who can't see this all ending, it's because they have no one to tell them. Their circle of jerks doesn't include anyone who knows anything about the real world. Therefore they all get to find out that they're losers at their own game, at the exact same time.
This can all be fixed, but it needs a change of DNA first.
Go team go.
