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PARTICIPATION TROPHY 2

A lot of political correctness is just stupid crap, like girls pretending they are as strong and macho as men.  I actually think that is funny, because two seconds after Lights Out, any dumb ass thinking this is so ( unfortunately, also including female warrior’s squad mates, the poor bastards ) is going to get a big dingus flattening as they step on their own junk, hard.  I look forward to the festivities.  But some of it is so insidiously underhanded and hidden you have to beware you don’t get caught up in the Darwin Awards.

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We all know Participation Awards are stupid.  The only good teacher is pain, and as soon as you remove that you learn all the wrong lessons.  But what if the ripple effects of that concept are far less easy to actually discern?  A literal Participation Award is just that, a ribbon or sparkly unicorn device that rewards you just for showing up, inhaler in hand, cheering from the sidelines as your team is soundly defeated.  But isn’t MOST of our lives now a sort of Participation Reward?  Yes, girls and OtherColors get them routinely, rewarded for shooting out of the Money Hole.

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Just for breathing, they are rewarded.  Here, Chesty, have money for your gender.  Here, Toby, have a job shuffling paper.  Don’t worry about filing wrong, we have another diversity hire to check you.  If SHE screws it up, people will just blame the Mumbai Hotline.  We all know and hate those people ( a minion just mentioned the Super Size redneck gal working at the utility company.  One can’t help but flash to The Cleveland Show from the Seth Universe ).  Or, at least we are jealous.  But aren’t we all just a LITTLE bit doing the same?

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Just for being red blooded ‘Murican’s, to a large degree we are rewarded and given a Lazy Sod Coupon Book to redeem throughout life.  Few people have to actually work all that hard, if they don’t want to.  They aren’t exactly rewarded, but they certainly are not punished, which through most of history was reward enough itself.  And I’m not JUST talking about welfare.  If you are willing to forego the two necessities that define ‘Muricanism, a car and debt, you are half way to barely doing any work to STILL have surplus after the bare necessities, without ANY welfare. 

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I’m certainly not complaining, you understand.  Who the heck wants to work themselves into an early grave, for the sole benefit of others, usually Blue Blood inbred asswhores?  Nobody, duh!  The only thing that concerns me is if we blind ourselves to the fact that our trophy is not earned.  I am certainly NOT saying I want to return to The Great Depression, where folks got to starve since they couldn’t work, after the central bank killed he economy ( they were not LITERALLY starved, but rather got just little enough something else killed them in their weakened state ).

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ANY tribe, from a nomad band to a nation or empire, has Non-Producers.  Children and old bastards come to mind, or even breeders in between litters.  They all contribute in one way or another, but only so many can produce food or protect it.  If you want a society that punished non-production, you soon run into negative issues.  You can solve the free rider issue without throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Of course, right now, we are all merely Oil Consumers and actually produce nothing, even if we work hard.  This leads to delusions of production.

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A lawyer shuffles papers and polishes his dildo to a legalistic high sheen, right before he uses it to rectally violate others.  An engineer takes the legal papers and then produces a resource heavy monument to further consumption ( such as a highway bridge ).  I’m not denigrating anyone ( well, the lawyer ) or their efforts.  I’m merely suggesting we aren’t really producing as much as consuming.  Just because you “officially” for a paycheck consume, how much different are you from the unpaid consumer?  Of course effort should be rewarded.  But I speak of sustainability.

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Look at this Big Picture.  Running UP the slope of empire, you are producing resources for the tribe.  Granted, that is through theft, but that is just how us naked apes roll.  But running DOWN the right side of the bell curve, we are all just fighting each other to eat a shrinking pie.  No one produces anything.  They cannot, in a devolution.  You need growing resources to produce.  Less resources just mean an embarrassing catfight over less and less.  But nobody can stop the bread and circuses, can they?  Those with MORE of the pie must share or immediately be deposed.

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Before we Peak Empire’d, we were given a trophy for an accident of birth.  Since then, more and more of us have been given a lifetime Circus Pass, having no clue that our fall from grace isn’t as bad as we think.  Being kicked out of the middle class just means you have to accept 80% less luxury, but are also able to just work 20% for it.  It really is a good deal if you think about it ( the people complaining about lack of healthy food and a lack of a car are really themselves usually at fault for trying to continue to live at middle class levels ).

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So, really, we are still being rewarded just for showing up to the party, even though we THINK we have it so bad.  Even at 13% of the energy we had at the true birth of the Oil Age, we are STILL living like kings compared to most through history.  Hell, we are doing better than most of the globe right now!  Even those of us “on the margins socioeconomically”.  I don’t say this to belittle those in dire straights, because hardship is ALWAYS based on YOUR reality, not others. 

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I’m just pointing out we have a long way to fall, and you have zero clue.  Since you really don’t know life and death competition, since all your life everyone got Participation Trophies, you think that is normal.  Even as we hurl towards the abyss, you still have surplus to play at this survivalist game.  You pat yourself on the back.  I’m a hard worker!  I earned my FLIR scope and MRE cases.  Well, sure.  No one says you are lazy.  But if you didn’t wallow in this monopoly control of surplus, you wouldn’t be able to have your toys no matter how hard you worked.

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In the end, I think the PC Bad Habit of handing out Participation Trophies is little more that everyone’s bad habit brought to its logical conclusion.  The façade stripped away.  We used to pretend only some of us worked hard at consuming oil.  How nobody has to do anything to play.  We started to believe our own bullcrap.  NOT cool!  Beware this mindset as we prepare to lose that 13% surplus.

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