Venting There are winners and there are losers

[Hadnafoflife]

This is how I internally view the world not that it's necceserily true but it is how I grew to see it, Might makes right, You are either strong or weak either good or bad things happen to you and if you can't control your environment then bad things might happen, If you are weak people will tear you, you will have less respect it's a lose-lose situation, If you are strong people will admire you and it's a win-win situation, There is no empathy in my view, The cruel and strong doesn't get punished and is a winner, The weak and kind is pathetic, of course there is strong and kind and weak and cruel but that doesn't change their fate, This is a quick vent about how i naturally see the world due to certain traumas and memories i hold, This is also the world view of people like Donald Trump.

What do you think about this? Share your thoughts, I'm by no means saying that this is completely how the world works it's just how my conditioned mind sees it

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I agree, there are winners and losers.
Whether we win or lose depends mostly on luck.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've definitely known successful people who are utterly ruthless. Sometimes though, I'm surprised that there are fairly nice people who have managed to do well also. Maybe they had more of an optimism and drive about them. Sometimes they had financial backing from the start. That has to help.

I suppose weakness is targetted. Both by people who seek to exploit. But then- someone 'weak' may have so little drive or confidence that they never push themselves to do things. And people may not have the patience to carry them.

I'm not the most confident. I've been told in just about every job I've done that I needed to be more confident. It's hard to be what you're not though.

Truthfully though, I dislike some of the kinds of people who do really well in this world. I've had managers who were really heartless who rise through the ranks seemingly because they are capable of being unethical and ruthless. I find it upsetting that the world rewards people like that.

I tend to have a suspicion- when people do really well- that they may have a ruthless streak. But then, I'm not always right.

 

[Nightfoot]

I don't remember the source, but the quote is, "Comparison is the thief of joy." The idea of winners and losers assumes life as a game and lots of people live as though it was. That said, social hierarchies do exist throughout the animal kingdom, especially seen in mammals, but even bees have assigned positions in what we call the pecking order. That exists among humans, as well, and is strongly tied to things like money or other social currencies like physical attractiveness and assertiveness. These confer power for those who possess these assets. In a way, seeing life as a game seems accurate as luck seems to deal each of us a hand to play and some hands are better at winning a successful and happy existence. But even narcissists carry pain of the shame they've buried so deeply they don't know the source of their pain, so they try to soothe it by dominating others, never being wrong and, most importantly, "winning."

 

[endlesstranquility]

If you are strong people will admire you and it's a win-win situation

I know

 

[Proceed]

I stopped caring awhile ago tbh. I don't care if I'm a loser or not.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Bitch With An Apple]

Strength and weakness are subjective. Competitive fitness forces people to compare on some metrics while ignoring others. Fuck that. It's only the weak who need to make other people fight in their arena when those people don't want to so that they can feel stronger than they are.

 

[WrathfulGloom32]

We are on a literal speck of dust planet, winners is insane to say, they are slaves to their chemical system. They will never be free, only have the illusion that they are. The losers too, at least the ones who declare themselves as such.

Win or Lose, it's actually lose either way.

Anyways, when they get dangerous they must be stopped, specially people like Trump or Putin or Kim Jong Un, etc.

I already shared my views on the world a couple of days ago, humans are just salty that they can never evolve from their animalistic desires, a civilization that would've accepted this and stayed put instead of trying to advance forward is smarter than us objectively. We will only end up destroying ourselves. Humanity will never win and they are going to fume when they realize that and destroy eachother in a fit of baby rage. Like they/we have done before.

Nothing makes you special, you are just another animal, either be humble about it and understand the fragility and terror of life or die in despair like the rest trying to cling to whatever you want to call as god, natural selection, capitalism, unfair, etc. (Not you you specifically, just in general, some advice)

 

[Sleepwalkuntilsane]

In my perspective, life is mostly divided by givers and takers, not the strong vs the weak 'losers'. Some of the weakest people in the world gain power by simply knowing how to take from others, and some of the strongest lose by simply giving too much away. That being said, it is much easier to take when you are strong, and much harder to hold on to what you have when you are weak. If you look at the big picture, its easy to say that win or lose, nothing matters in the end. I think that this is true, but it doesn't matter to you now. You cannot experience the big picture at all, you will die long before you have even the slightest fraction of all life has to offer. In this context, it matters a lot whether you are a winner or loser, as the comfort of knowing that no one is special in the end doesn't matter when in the now they have all the cards. It is a sad truth that there will always be people who abuse what strength, leverage, or what they can take to hurt others needlessly. They use politics, money, religion, or any other method to hurt others for personal gain, or for no reason at all.