Pondering The Toxicity Of Competition
Why The Benevolent Society Is No Longer Utopia
The last century has been very enlightening and leaves interesting clues in its wake. Our global state of affairs, geopolitically and ecologically mainly, are pieces of evidence that something went very wrong and that it is about time to reevaluate the concept of competition.
Because, you see, if competition was so beneficial, how can we explain the corporate takeover and our $315 trillion debt black hole? Not to mention that exploitation is still rampant, and the commerce of life has become profoundly unethical. For the sake of profit, what was declared immoral three decades ago is now accepted as a necessary evil. Such a moral relativism is a scourge. Let’s call it economic debauchery.
Some Christians would refer to the parable of the Golden Calf to illustrate what is happening, and their observation would be appropriate.
It is not without a reason that a Bull is a Wall Street icon.
We do not know how many missing people are connected to organ trade each year and worldwide, but the number must be staggering. One thing is certain: human organ trafficking is flourishing like never before because live organs are better than cadavers’. To add to the injury, the demand is high and supply low. That’s what the free market is about: handling supply and demand. And boost demand if that latter is weak or inexistent.
Such trends are systemic. Hyperconsumerism, which harms the environment, follows the same rules. For the sake of competition again, nothing was done to prevent Forever Chemicals’ invasion of the ecosystem. And ultra-processed foods are now spreading metabolic diseases like never before, as the average consumer cannot afford to buy organic labels.
Many will throw their arms in the air and contend it is human nature. Blaming greed constantly is also very common. Luckily, they are dead wrong. It is the human condition, straight indoctrination, that has convinced us that competition is healthy and fixes shortcomings. Nothing is farther from the truth. Anything contradicting the “individualistic competition consensus” is associated immediately with collectivism. Such an argument is, in fact, an intellectual built-in self-defense mechanism generated by social polarization.
The reality check is that competition has brought economic fascism upon us and the most despicable human behaviors. Competition has contaminated the blood of society, which is money. But paradoxically, without competition (in a competition-free model), money would lose its magic that makes crowds believe that money also grows on trees or that it multiplies while sleeping, so to speak.
SO WHY IS COMPETITION TOXIC?
The Human being is about to be transformed into merchandise, contended Attali 40 years ago. How prophetic!
The market is religion… money is its sacrament… and we are commodities sold to the highest bidders.
Competition influences the three levels of reality. Individually, socially and metaphysically/spiritually. And these three aspects interact constantly. It is difficult to treat them separately. So, we’d ask you to read the following slowly.
In a sense, money encourages “intellectual convenience” because people are caught in a senseless “work, spend, reproduce” mode. When working eight hours or more daily to go by, most do not want things to be challenging outside their routines. They prefer paying when they can afford it instead of thinking. The root cause of convenience is subliminally induced by competition, which keeps people in a survival mode that destroys their interest in the Unknown. In many instances, the Unknown may even inspire fear. When the human brain gives up critical thinking, the entertainment industry (celerity worship) offers respite for a while, hence its success. Short-term pleasures are sought and become a form of addiction.
The fact is that eighty percent of the jobs merely serve the purpose of fueling spending and keeping the credit pipeline open to lubricate the economy. We need an awakening here, which will not be without consequences because a new system is needed. David Graeber, the father of the Wallstreet movement, who died mysteriously in 2022, contended that if we could end overconsumption, we would have to work like 4hrs per day, which would give us more time for our families, friends, and creativity. Life would eventually become much more purposeful.
Another clue that competition is toxic can be detected in the extraordinary speculation surrounding the global housing boom. Our words here are based on two decades of observation, the study of monetary history, and the acceptance of human finitude.
There is little room for debate as it is clear that speculation brought an appalling situation, exposing the last straw of our conundrum.
This engineered worldwide housing boom has done wonders because it is propelled by the dream of owning a piece of the earth and living happily ever after. The sale pitch is adapted to a materialistic mindset, identifying itself with possessions. This is, sadly, materialistic manipulation. Not only do house prices go through the roof, but they also cause lots of ecological destruction.
We already mentioned in “Will Humanity Price Itself Out of Existence?” that concrete is today the most destructive material on the market. Not to mention plastic. And we are not mincing our words. But here again, this example shows why destruction by profit can only be fixed if we abolish competition. We are headed for an unprecedented global housing crash. At some point, the pool of buyers will have shrunk so much that nothing will prevent this economic bubble from contracting.
Anybody questioning the social role of money openly will either be labeled as a communist militant or regarded as a collective suicide advocate since money is needed to survive. The extreme polarization of consensuses is behind such stances, which are built-in defense mechanisms of the system.
Being able to imagine a world without competition requires lots of imagination and also demonstrates the capacity to integrate the Sacred Feminine. Earth is feminine energy as She nurtures all life evenly. Paying for life with death is part of the regenerative cycle and is more than enough.
Competition’s malevolent past is rooted in the Patriarchal features of war and only deals with the preoccupation with survival. So, all cultures are war-based, and today’s conflicts guarantee that our future will be much the same because how we think shapes our reality.
Although our stance values a competition-free model and benevolence, there is room for monetarism as long as a majority understands the evils of speculation and the foolishness of accumulating wealth.
Wealth cannot be created nor destroyed as it all goes back to the Earth. Earth can provide for everybody, and any slightest form of greed will fuel conflicts.
Because of the impermanence of life, the only thing that will remain with us is the soul or energy.
A competition model also distracts from the fact that if we work to increase demand and ensure that we keep our jobs, the karma of competition eventually leads to a brick wall.
Competition poisons the blood of society, which is money, and that makes us do things contrary to our welfare and prompts us to commodify human rapport. More dire consequences are awaiting us around the corner. Among them, one will be that psychology as we know it could find itself engulfed by the demise of our malevolent framework.
All intellectual activities should remain benevolent because as soon as Knowledge falls into the hands of meritocracy, malevolence (domination and exploitation) begins. However, meritocracy also serves the purpose of compartmentalizing humans into categories and that some are more valuable than others. In a Benevolent Society, it is unacceptable.
As stated in a previous article, competition aims to eliminate all competition.
All these generational conflicts are encoded in our DNA, which means that genetic memories also influence our behavior. Not all trauma we seem to be suffering from is ours. If you do some homework, you will discover that memories can be inherited, which was already known in the late 2000s. Psychology has never resolved this and never will. Society is sick like never before.
Experiencing existence through the lens of Material Reality is now hazardous. Although it seemed fun for a while, the Law of Rhythm is now catching up with society. In other words, what goes up must go down.
All things considered real are made of things not regarded as real. So where does it leave us?
There is a spiritual lesson here for us as a whole.
Seeking short-term highs comes with many strings attached. Everything in the universe is about equilibrium and is represented by the Law Of One. Dualism is a philosophical dilemma that we can only resolve by bringing this equilibrium, reuniting polarities within ourselves.
Where is the point of speculation if we all end up facing the deep end of greed after all?
Our blog “Pondering The Complexity Of Greed” sheds some light on the subject — enough to help our readers begin their investigation. The Law of One defines the Polarity of Life and warns about the pitfalls of pushing to the extremes. Yet, such extremes are endorsed and encouraged by the dogmatic sale pitch that everybody is entitled to get ever more prosperous. This worship of materialism cannot end well.
Although The Law of One can be perceived as a metaphysical material, The Law of One also objectively demonstrates the importance of the balance between the service to others VS the service to self. The ratio of 51% VS 49% should suffice for society to become more peaceful and begin to tackle long-term problem-solving.
The service to others will always come first because individualism and competition are at the core of our inescapable financial scarcity and the slogan that we cannot feed the whole planet.
Looking at existence through the lens of a competition-free template gives life the much more profound meaning that we are here to Love Life and Co-Create.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
