.Competition was created to justify the lower self character and behavior of a certain group of people.
1. Certain people are so consumed with fear of their own inadequacies compared to the strengths of other people and nature, these certain people go on the attack because that's what they would do if they were actually stronger so they assume others want to attack them.
2. Whenever competence has yet to be gained and there is a lack of confidence that this competence can be gained, competition is created. Competition is one of several necessary components to justify an adversarial relationship which is then always used to justify war. War is necessary to diminish competence in order to allow incompetence to reign supreme so that those who lack confidence can feel safe and secure by what is outside themselves. They are never safe and secure within themselves.
3. Competition is used to cause disharmony because harmony interferes with war.
4. Competition helps justify racism and other discriminations, including sexism, ageism, etc.
5. For the most part, competition through games is used to normalize the notion of competition so that competition in its most harsh forms is not as jolting, thus, these harsh forms of competition are tolerated until they also become normalized. This occurs because the main goal of competition is winning, rivalries, bragging rights, being number one, being champion and making history rather than competition being simply and solely about self-improvement of self and others. We know this is true when we celebrate victory as a result of mistakes made by other rather than by corrections made by self. These "victories" are always short-lived because internal weaknesses remain. In general, competition as a game is used to prepare people to accept battling for everything in life is just how it's supposed to be. As a result, people use their abilities to be the best battlers they can be. Battling is only part of it, health, which is completion, is the greater context. When a health context is at a higher level in the hierarchy of our consciousness, we are able to realize what life expresses through example metaphor: There are periods of sickness and periods of health. Life, for humanity and the rest of creation, is not always about being sick and battling. Although individuals and groups might be sick for their entire lifetimes, humanity has not been sick for its entire lifetime. From this we are able to understand the next cycle for humanity is one of health after this battle with sickness and its last desperate surge of upheaval. Thus, our main focus must be about completion, not competition. Our main focus must be about health, spiritual health. Even though the main battle is spiritual, the main objective is not to win or defeat an opponent. The main objective is completion of self, health of self, knowledge of self. This must occur simultaneously as we are also dealing with physical things and the other battles that exist. As we are dealing with these other battles, we will then understand how they came about and how to deal with them in a way that is not an attempt to win or defeat others but is an attempt to transcend and complete self. This in no ways means to not defend against that which offends the rights of creation. The example metaphors of food medicine and the immune system shows us there is an antidote and a system to aid us in the battle. The competition is to improve this knowledge. Competition is an inner self thing. The person must improve self to be a better person. No one becomes better by defeating another. The group must improve itself as a group in order to be a better group. No group is better by defeating another group.
6. Competition as a game is supposed to be about sportsmanship, self-improvement and being the best you can be. Everything associated with competition is supposed to improve character and carry over into life. Though competition as a game is promoted as such, rarely is it practiced as such. Instead competition is about gamesmanship, rivalry, winning, defeating, fighting, hating and hoping someone else makes a mistake, etc. Competition makes it acceptable for people who are not even in the game to behave in despicable ways. Even “booing” someone for being their best or making a mistake is bad behavior.
7. That which is naturally weak will automatically become obsolete. No matter what is done to delay this, it must and will happen because to be naturally weak is to also be unable to adapt to changes which then makes the weak even weaker. As a result, the weak must do whatever they can to keep others weak in order to make the weakness of the obsolete seem like strength. Competition for life is necessary to consume and occupy strengths so the weak can more easily rule over many.
8. “Winning” through any sort of competition only “provides momentary satisfaction. As a result, one must continuously compete to get more for oneself and more momentary satisfaction. These insecure feelings and insatiable desires subsequently make one more anxious and depressed.” (1)
9. Competition makes it a struggle to survive. “Once a fragmented pattern of interpreting reality and materialistic designs for living have been endorsed and adopted in a society they become self-perpetuating and self-sustaining in a capitalistic economic structure that is built around a wealthy elite with economically-challenged masses competing to survive.” (2)
10. Competition causes self-worth to be defined in terms of being able to compete. “...when a cultural worldview’s conceptual system is primed with assumptions that limit reality to what the five senses perceive, forces external to an individual can easily be manipulated to define human identity and worth. For example, external characteristics, such as physical appearance, income, position, and education become the basis for measuring human worth. Such externalization not only fosters a sense of insecurity, fearfulness, and alienation, not to mention unbridled materialism, individualism, and competition, but it predisposes individuals to anxiety, depression, addictions, and violence. It also results in the systematic privileging of certain individuals and groups over others by virtue of race, gender, and class.” (3)
11. Competition against any aspect of creation is competition against the higher spiritual nature of the Creator.
(1) Paraphrased: Myers, Linda James; Montgomery, Derek; Fine, Mark; Reese, Roy, (1992), "Belief Systems Analysis Scale And Belief And Behavior Awareness Scale Development: Measuring An Optimal, Afrocentric World-view, In R. Jones (Ed.), "Handbook Of Tests And Measurements For Black Populations, (2 vols), Hampton, VA: Cobb & Henry Publishers, p. 23.
(2) Myers, Linda James, Ph.D. & Speight, Suzette L., Ph.D., "Reframing Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Persons of African Descent: Africana/Black Psychology Meeting the Challenges of Fractured Social and Cultural Realities,"The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2010, June), vol.3, no.8, p. 73.
(3) Myers, Linda James, & Shinn, David H., "Appreciating Traditional Forms of Healing Conflict in Africa and the World," Black Diaspora Review 2(1) (2010, Fall), p. 4., https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/9471
