Do’s & Douches
Over dinner with Post★Girl, I had an epiphany; I am not a douche, I’m a do.
The inspiration for this revelation were various topics, that we concluded all shared a common theme; competition and sportsmanship.
I am a competitive person, not is sports which I don’t care for (save World Cup), but the same drive exists in me that does a major league player, to be the best.
Doing the best and being rewarded for it is are basic principles of all sports. You play, you score points over you competitor, you win and are rewarded with elevated status and/or a trophy. If you cheat, you are penalized, repeat offenses get you ejected and generally ostracized for a lack of sportsmanship.
Of course if the refs do not see or call out a team when they cheat spectators rarely seem to be pleased and everyone generally seems to feel it diminishes the entire event.
Perhaps it is that there are spectators and at least in terms watching a game in execution, there is transparency and repercussions even for officials making bad calls.
So the point, the lack of transparency in business and government allow for and applaud cheating with with terms like “cutthroat.” Being the best doesn’t often yield the same results as it would for Lebron James.
Imagine if every time Lebron scored everyone said Shaq got the point. What if no matter who else on the team scored points everyone said Lebron scored all of them. How about if the owner of the Cavs put his son on the team, who is five-foot, three-inches and can’t play for shit, but is made a forward and held up as the team’s star player.
Now think about how we know the US government and corporate America to operate. Sounds insane, right?
And yet, we are all feign surprise when our economy fails, oil is spilled and long-standing institutions fold. We bluster when bailouts are given out to heads of failed corporations who use them for raises and bonuses, for themselves. These cheating douches are held up as movers of industry, when they have only shown incompetence. Five-three insiders with no handle, that can’t even dunk.
When is America going to become about doing the job right? Actually being the best instead of talking about it? Looking for the best and brightest to help us achieve these things instead of the loudest and connected? When are we going to free ourselves from the cheating douches and look towards the sportsmanship of the do’s?
