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-IF WE ARE EVER TO WIN THE DEADLIEST WAR, WE MUST LEARN CONSTRUCTIVE WAYS TO DEAL WITH OUR DIFFERENCES. -DON BASHAM-
"There are victories of the soul and spirt.
Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, or even how you play the game: it only matters how good you look! *wink*
The zero-sum game: that's the way it is if you're a competitive person and you see capitalism in that way. Zero-sum game implies winners and losers which I don't agree with. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose, it all comes back to zero (minus eight, plus eight). But I don't agree with that because all boats can rise on a rising sea. Good films can help other films to be open. There's a different psychology at work. If you're overly competitive, you'll be exclusionary and say it's a zero-sum game (I must get eight and he must lose eight). Gekko simplifies it down to a painting. He says he bought this painting or this building for X and he sold it for Y and he made that profit and he assumes that somebody else got beat, but that's not necessarily true. You don't always lose.
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
