Larry Bradley's Weekly Ezine #189 The Meaning of "Champion"
1. On the Radio Again
2. The Meaning of “Champion”
1. On the Radio Again
On Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:15 EDT (12:15 CDT) I’ll be on the radio again. Jim Lynch invited me on his Everything Is Broken show at WUSB, FM 90.1 out of Stony Brook, NY. The station serves Long Island, NY and Connecticut. We’re going to be talking about the effectiveness (or lack of it) of the Occupy Wall Street movement and comparing it to the Tea Party movement, as well as what I think all these folks should be doing instead of what they are doing.
The web site is here. The station will archive the interview for about a week and I’ll try to get a copy posted to my web site.
Hope you can join us.
2. The Meaning of “Champion”
Isn’t there a difference between being the winner and being the champion?
What does being a champion truly mean?
People compete in any number of endeavors. Among those endeavors are cooking, dancing, bowling, golf, auto racing, baseball, basketball, and football. Some of those endeavors are individual, some are pairs and some are two or more people. Some of those endeavors involve competing against a standard environment where a score is possible, such as bowling or golf. Some involve competing against a standard where human judgment determines the outcome, such as cooking or dancing. Still others involve competing as part of a team.
Our tendency as humans is to admire those whose performance is truly superior. Regardless of the field, we admire those who rise to the top. We look up to those who are willing to take on all challengers within the bounds of the rules of the competition and emerge victorious. We want our winners to win decisively and we especially admire the winner when the margin of victory was narrow and under pressure. This is the kind of winner we call a “true champion”.
Conversely, we reject the validity of a winner as a champion whose winning is the result of perceived favoritism or is the result of a bad judgment by an official. We don’t want asterisks, official or unofficial, to be next to the winners’ names.
An interesting dichotomy to this viewpoint is the use of deception in many of these competitions as a means of winning. Within a competitive sport, especially with teams and when those teams are well matched, the key to victory is often the ability of one side or the other to leverage play by deception. How curious we accept within the rules the ability of the winner to deceive in order to be the winner. Does logic not follow, then that the best deceiver is likely to become the champion?
We accept this dichotomy because . . .
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hello, this is john how can I contact you?
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You just did. As someone I knew used to say, "State your business."
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