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Many games are "won" according to the relationship
between the scores of the participants. An essential
aspect of the game is keeping score. Usually the highest
score wins, and the purpose of the game is to get ahead of
the other contestant(s). Often the purpose is to keep the
other contestants' scores minimal. The rules of a
competitive game weigh against cooperation between
competitors. Cooperation is discouraged by the nature of
most games. A competitive society does not encourage non-
competitive games.
In a competitive society there is a tendency for all
inter-personal relationships to become games people play
in order to "win". There is a tendency to keep score
according to some spoken/unspoken set of rules. The
social competitors are not motivated to engage in
cooperative ventures---because doing so will undermine
their chances of winning: Students vie for a limited
number of top scores. Businessmen vie for top management
positions. Social climbers vie for a limited number of
visible statuses.
It may come to pass that people become so wrapped up
in score-keeping that they cannot unwrap themselves and
have any pleasure apart from keeping-score. They may have
their pleasure undermined by a fear that another has a
greater score than they have---regardless of how much
scoreless-pleasure they may enjoy. The preoccupation with
keeping score may obscure many potential scoreless-
pleasures. They may end up with pleasure-less scores and
be baffled by their lack of genuine satisfaction.
The score-full society is likely to be preoccupied
with annual incomes, gross national product, gross
national consumption, and gross national waste. "More" as
a score may come to be equated with "better", regardless
of what it is more of. More bombs and more ability to
kill the enemy many times over---may be equated with
goodness, patriotism, and service of God. Keeping score
can be very misleading---leading people to do insane
things in the name of sanity.
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