SeanE opened this issue on Sep 23, 2005 ยท 32 posts
Arbelain posted Tue, 27 September 2005 at 6:59 PM
XENOPHONZ idea is like McLuhan's prediction, moreless 50 years ago, that in the future, with the developing of mass-midias, everybody in the earth could be the starring during 15 minutes, but he was too opmitimist, in despite of the common opinion of his contemporanies.
I think the really great winner is one who receive and important award, and then, refuse it. Like Samuel Beckett refuse litherary Nobel Price, or Marlon Brando with the Oscar. They are the really winners. Who are this entity or another one, to sentence as 'the better, the winner, the number one'? Its all a consequence of the theatre of the competition, like when we where childs and start in this roulette, and when we win, they give us many considerations, and when we lose, other kind of things. The competition has a good, but ingenuos ideal in The Baron of Coubertin.
Competition gives at the short or at the long, an insanity psicology. Other thing is to participate -but without 'winners' at the end.
Its a good manner of desconsidering awards, writing here sarcastic opinions, or 'bit cynicals', and funny observations; its a good manner of not being envolved, with others, in the madness of social races of credits, trophies, stadistics obssesions, 'my son is the first of his class, my daughter is the most intelligent...I will like to see here, a winner, who refuse the price. Will like it very much.