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Vicious Minotaur
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
719
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Posted - 2014.03.12 04:35:00 -
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17/14 is terrible? What is with people, these days?
A sub-par match is labelled as terrible. A game that gets less than a 9 on the 10 point scale is considered mediocre... Getting a C on a test is considered a failure... Getting second place is considered losing...
Why is the middle ground shrinking into non-existence? Why are people more and more thinking in black and white in a reality that is filled with nuanced shades of grey?
Anyway. Congrats. The only mails I ever get are corp. invitations... |
Vicious Minotaur
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
719
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Posted - 2014.03.12 05:12:00 -
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DJINN Marauder wrote:Vicious Minotaur wrote:17/14 is terrible? What is with people, these days?
A sub-par match is labelled as terrible. A game that gets less than a 9 on the 10 point scale is considered mediocre... Getting a C on a test is considered a failure... Getting second place is considered losing...
Why is the middle ground shrinking into non-existence? Why are people more and more thinking in black and white in a reality that is filled with nuanced shades of grey?
Anyway. Congrats. The only mails I ever get are corp. invitations... Competition. If you're not the best, you're not good. It rules our society just as much as the desire to be better than the guy next to you, rules you
I like that mindset.
With ~7 billion humans on this planet, that means that there is a very high probability that those with that mindset are, by their very own logic, not good.
Though another ruling force of society are delusions/denial. So those with the aforementioned mindset will probably plug their ears and pretend like they are the best, and therefore, not in the categorization of "not good," even though they sit next to a guy that is better than them.
Humans are silly creatures.
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Vicious Minotaur
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
720
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Posted - 2014.03.12 05:50:00 -
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DJINN Marauder wrote:Vicious Minotaur wrote:DJINN Marauder wrote:Vicious Minotaur wrote:17/14 is terrible? What is with people, these days?
A sub-par match is labelled as terrible. A game that gets less than a 9 on the 10 point scale is considered mediocre... Getting a C on a test is considered a failure... Getting second place is considered losing...
Why is the middle ground shrinking into non-existence? Why are people more and more thinking in black and white in a reality that is filled with nuanced shades of grey?
Anyway. Congrats. The only mails I ever get are corp. invitations... Competition. If you're not the best, you're not good. It rules our society just as much as the desire to be better than the guy next to you, rules you I like that mindset. With ~7 billion humans on this planet, that means that there is a very high probability that those with that mindset are, by their very own logic, not good. Though another ruling force of society are delusions/denial. So those with the aforementioned mindset will probably plug their ears and pretend like they are the best, and therefore, not in the categorization of "not good," even though they sit next to a guy that is better than them. Humans are silly creatures. At the same time though, this mindset helps propel society and us forward. By us WANTING to be better, we can strive to achieve more. And it's not silly at all. Females naturally look for a mate that can sustain themselves and survive effectively. Males want to reproduce. So they try to be better at surviving (or at least seem like they are) than the other males and what not. It's natural animal instinct
At the same time, I sit right here in a nation plagued by nationalism and the blind belief that we are somehow better than the rest of the world despite concrete evidence to the contrary. Our infrastructure is failing, cities are decaying, and talented professionals leaving en masse. We have that mindset. And we are moving not forward, but backwards. Mindsets are meaningless without action. But I digress...
I get wanting to be better. I don't get is, as I have said: Why are people more and more thinking in black and white in a reality that is filled with nuanced shades of grey? Why are people slowly disregarding the middle grounds?
Part of improving yourself as a person or as a people is acknowledging reality. THAT is a fundamental part of moving forward. And reality has middle grounds, whether we like it or not.
As for the reproductive part... Well, I fail to see how that is at all relevant to the idea of the diminishing middle ground.
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