gonvaled's Journal: The winner

A problem with the capitalist culture is that it focuses the attention of people on winners; it tries to look for winners in each field of endeavour, and it succeeds: most of the times, the winner is not considerably better than the lossers; It is maybe even worse than the lossers; but finding the right winner is not the goal: the goal is to have a winner, or a small set of winners, on which the attention of people can be focused.

That means that we have a group of people which will beneffit from the attention of the rest of us (money, fame, power ...); this group of people, although big in absolute numbers, is percentually small. Which means that we have a very small percent of people using up most of the resources that our society provides. This happens of course because people contribute to this climate with their attitude; but their attitude is partly influenced by market forces which are under control of an even more reduced group of people, which push this winner ideology as far as they can.

Up to now they have succeeded quite a lot. Do we like what the outcome of this culture has been? How long will we keep on trying - and not succeeding - on being the winners? When will we decide to stop fighting each other, and instead work together for the common good? Does really people preffer being second-class citizens and having some idols, or would we like to have our richenesses better distributed?

Time will tell ...