Robert, Friends, That's right. But also I think we need an altogether more sophisticated understanding of both competition and cooperation.
It's simply not good enough to say, as some do, that cooperation is 'good' and competition is 'bad'. Rather, I suggest it's important to note that both can be either good or bad (i.e. constructive or destructive) depending on the circumstances. So you could cite examples of destructive cooperation (a group of CEOs meeting to unlawfully fix prices, perhaps?) and of constructive competition (a well-umpired game of tennis?) as well as of the reverse; i.e. destructive competiton and constructive cooperation. So there are four options, not just two. best wishes John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Link" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Arguments against privileging the competition narrative > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:38:26AM -0700, Howard Rheingold wrote: >> Cooperation and competition are both part of the story. Evidence >> abounds that humans cooperate AND compete. > > Pruhzackly, hence the silliness of privileging one over the other. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
