The (Not-So) Secret Society …Of those who refuse to be average.

The (Not-So) Secret Society …Of those who refuse to be average.
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Americans are always after the fastest, deadliest, most gruesome, most muscular, richest, more, more and more. Objective reporting is not enough, the public wants to see decapitated corpses. It doesn't matter if some girl has been raped, they want the details, or it didn't happen.

A bank has been robbed, the news doesn't suffice, they want to see the police chase from the live cable TV. There's food, they want fast food. They got fast food, they have to supersize it, so they can be the fattest nation too. It's not enough to go to gym, to workout, to leave a healthy life. No, you have to push your body to the limit, get sick if need be.

It's time to recognize that this mindset is toxic. The winner-takes-all system is the bane of modern society. Capitalism is based on the notion that the purchasing power of the middle class is superior than that of any given individual or group, but now everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, the winner, erode the middle class until there'll be the reigning elite on one side and the unemployed, unwashed masses on the other.

And do you know what middle class equals to? average. You work 9 to 5, you have kids, a car and maybe a home. You're average. But nobody wants to be average right? No, everyone wants more, and in the end, there's no equilibrium. A world where everyone wants to be the best, the winner, where nobody is happy with what already has, it's a sad, sick world.

I hope is not too late to turn the tide.

Since I assume every single new "sport" would have people constantly saying that type of thing this is a given isn't it? Every failed sport and every successful sport would have people who had said something along those lines at the beginning.

That particularly annoyed me but because it did it was also the only thing I still remember from the article - it was very pretty vacuous.