The Dance of competition and collaboration

I have been listening to the audio of the book Break em Up, by Zephyr Teachout. She writes about the terrible effect of monopolisation of human welfare. 

Monopolies do not exist in nature. The cry from the anti-regulatory side of corporate politics wants massive accumulation, conglomeration and the power to do almost anything. These same people say they love competition, yet monopoly is not competitive. The competition is wiped out. 

It is this world of monopolisation that many of us are at the effect of today. An increased divide between the haves and have-nots. Rising inequality, often built on the foundation of propagated racism. 

I am someone who does not enjoy competition. Yet healthy competition creates the field for creativity and innovation. Monopolisation kills innovation. Just as too much consensus does. 

We need competition to create tensegrity, to enable polarity and aliveness.

The dance between competition and collaboration is easier when there is a purpose we care about collectively. 

To know that we live as a part of a whole, that what I do affects everything, creates a purpose.

If we sit in a forest, we can observe natures dance of competition and collaboration all around us.

Photo Taken March 31st 2023