Why the world is full of losers

Originally Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009

As I walk around in life interacting with people, listening to them babble talk about their lives I started wondering about something: why is everybody I deal with a loser? Is it just a coincidence that every person I deal with is a loser? Possible. Do all the people who are losers happen to gravitate towards me? Also entirely possible. But I have a better theory. It’s not one people are going to like, and it’s going to go against a lot of the pop-psychobabble everybody was raised with about how everybody is special and everybody’s a winner, but it needs to be said. Here it is:

THE WORLD KEEPS REWARDING THEM FOR LOSING!!!

It’s that simple!!

Kids are raised in environments where they’re rewarded for LOSING!! What the hell!! A trophy for last place? What the hell good ever came from getting a trophy for last place??

As far as I know, the psychobabble reasons behind this are that it will help build the kids’ self esteem or some crap like that. Maybe for some kids this actually does help them, I won’t say it doesn’t help anyone. But it seems like for the majority all it does is set them up for disappointment later on in life. It’s setting them up to believe somebody is going to give them something whether or not they’ve done anything to earn it, which I guess is how the real world works, right? Jobs are given away all the time to whoever really really thinks they should have it, right?? Money too. And houses, food, families, and all that stuff.

Wait, that isn’t how it works. So why are we raising kids to think that’s how it works again? Hmmm

I’m not telling you to tell your kids they’re dumb, pathetic, stupid morons. I’m saying to make sure your kids know that life won’t be handed to them on a silver platter. They’re going to have to earn it. Yes, they can absolutely do and achieve anything they want. But it won’t be given to them. If somebody wants to fly a space shuttle, they can! But they need to earn it. They need to have the best grades, the best training, and be in great physical shape to endure the stress. They need to compete for the position. They need to understand that competition is real. And competition is good!

Competition is a great thing. It keeps the world from becoming complacent and bored. Which, as you can see if you look around life, is what we’ve become! Look around almost anywhere and you know what you will see? A lot of bored people. They’re bored because they don’t comprehend the value of winning in what they do. The stuff that used to be taught early in life when a person is most able to learn it and change their habits isn’t being taught until they’re done with school and are trying to succeed in the real world. This is the first glimpse they get of life as it is.

The moral of all this? Stop letting the next generation grow up believing that failure is ok. Let them know they can succeed, but only if THEY make it happen. Nobody else will.

Unless they're rich that is.

Anyway, that's what I believe. Or this is the late night ramblings of a loser asshole. Call it what you will.

Original Comments

Hear, hear!
Posted by the RBEEC on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 10:56 AM