Random Thought #113

I am a big believer in collaboration vs competition. I try and teach it to my kids. Competition brings about winners, but it also brings out losers. There is a hierarchy instead of an even playing field. Some are better than others, all are not equal. It promotes fame, power, money, greed, selfishness, and pride. Everything in this world is about competition. Its about never being satisfied and always having to be better, faster, bigger, stronger. We are never content. It coincides with the theory of scarcity. Scarcity is relative and only apparent due to selfishness and greed of a few. The concept of everyone wearing white in the temple is to promote the idea that everyone is equal. The concept behind the United Order and the Law of Consecration is one of collaboration. Unfortunately, the reason there isn't more collaboration is because it requires that all parties are working towards a similar goal and quite often, due to the factors I mentioned above, not everyone is working towards the same goal. We all have self-interest and it often trumps the common good. We succumb to temptation. None of us is perfect but if we at least strive to collaborate and not compete, the world could at least in our view become a little better.