who said competition was progress?

again, my memory might be failing me, but here's reality to slap me back with the consequences of such statement. watching behaviors everyday, competition is set as the main dynamic for achievement. then achievements are poor, if they are ever reached at all. we are ever forced to compete with our equals to presumptually achieve the goals we set to ourselves, but such dynamic is not absent of negative forces. for a winner to exist, there must be losers, and situations of unequity are created. for those in favor to competition, that loss of balance is the goal itself, rendering useless whatever benefits created by the work invested in the task at hand. but the pleasure of winning is not made to last, so you need to compete again, either winning of losing next time. then, what do we get from competition?

when we focus on competing with others, we tend to get more concerned about deprecating our competitors, rather than improving our capacities. we pull down the bar, instead of jumping higher to better ourselves, tending to destroy rather than create. competition creates confrontation, which generates damage to all sides involved. yet we are still encouraged to compete, because it's the only way to get what we need.

or is it?

when we cooperate, we coordinate and join forces between a number of individuals to achieve objectives. it takes a process of thinking to organize the task in the most efficient way possible. in most occasions, the energy employed for this process is neglegible compred to the amount saved in the completion of the task itself. even when the organizing phase is more consuming than the completion of the work at hand, the learning acquired is a collateral reward itself.

however, we are constantly told the opposite: cooperation does not work in the long term.

but does it?

i'm not doing quite well lately, so i'll just drop this here. now it's up for you to complete this post with your own thoughts about this matter, which applies, by the way, to all posts in this blog. please, do.