Zombie: Losing, the new winning
Our buddy, Zombie steps out from behind the camera and sent a link to the latest post at Pajama Media entitled “Losing is the new winning” about the declining importance of actually winning something;
What do Canadian soccer scores, the Gaza Flotilla Incident, Marxism, and the origins of Christianity have in common? Simple: They all rely on the notion that winning is bad. The triumph of the downtrodden.
The search for equality from cradle to grave has become ridiculous and bred a political movement;
The whole goal of sailing ships toward Gaza is not to “break the blockade,” but rather to seek out and initiate a conflict with the Israeli military. And here’s the key: not merely to enter into a conflict with the Israelis, but specifically to lose a conflict with the Israelis. Because only by losing can the activists and militants claim the victimhood mantle and declare a moral victory. So, just as in a Canadian soccer game, by losing they win.
Go read the whole thing.
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Yeah, it’s what Nietzsche called “slave morality”. “My strength is made manifest in weakness” as the Apostle Paul wrote in II Corinthians. “The meek shall inherit the Earth” I think read somewhere also.
And it works, Ghandi, MLK etc…
Until you run up against those who ascribe to the Nietzchean view.
Not to get all Hegalian on you, but what really works is when you synthisize the two ideas. Make your enemy live up to his ideals while you have none. You see a political version of this with Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” And THAT works like billy hell.
It is also what the Army calls “Asymetric Warfare.” And it’s kicking our ASS.
Call it “losing” if you want, but we better start looking at the scoreboard.
And Heinlein wrote (somewhere), “The meek shall inherit the Earth”, a small plot about 6’x3’x6′ deep.
“You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel.
The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.”
–On Strategy, by Harry G. Summers
There it is!
Thanks for this Jonn. PJM is not one of my regular reads.
If this is the case why continue with the Olympics? That’s teaching people to not even try to be the best, they brainwashing us into think what’s the point?
I’d like to keep my enemies close, but I’d like to defeat them when the time comes.