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Monday, July 5. 2010

The dark side of cooperation

"Cooperation" has been the mantra of the Kindergarten-minded in our midst for years. "Competition" is supposedly male, leads to Capitalism and war and other not-nice things, and is thus evil and a human trait which must be eliminated.


Of course, I have never noticed women to be any less competitive than men. Everybody enjoys a bit of the spice of competition in life, even when you lose.


Competition vs Cooperation a phony duality which, I assume, comes from some wacky ideology. Case in point: The Dark side of Cooperation.

Posted by The Barrister in Fallacies and Logic, Our Essays, Politics at 16:25 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Interesting article. Given that I have a natural bent towards math and stats I'm probably not the best person to comment, but I can't help but wonder at the educational levels of the test subjects. As soon as I saw the experiment parameters, the solution to "win" the most coins immediately became apparent. Anybody who had taken a basic logic course or game/set theory course would have seen the advantages quickly.

With respect to men being competitive, I can state, merely by observation having raised two daughters and watching my lovely bride work within the largely female world of elementary school education, that women compete just as intensely as men only they compete in a constantly changing landscape of defensive and offensive personal and political alignments of "us" against "them". A very different kind of competition, but competition none-the-less.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-07-05 18:19 (Reply)
Yes, some sort of seamless,
whacky ideology is at the base of cooperation suite
and her names are myriad and womanish
and aims certain
her kind of competition
someday will rule.
#2 Leag on 2010-07-05 21:44 (Reply)

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