Theory of Hypercompetition
or Biomechanics, Sport and The Revolution
Abstract
Hypercompetition, the Red Queen race of evolutionary biology, where speed cannot be sacrificed for even a moment lest the opponent pull ahead, relativity in its most elementary form. It doesn't matter how well you do as long as you're doing better than the next pleb. Run as fast as you can just to stay in place.
The evolutionary pressure that has resulted in the impractical overdevelopment of the peacock's tail or NFL standard body padding is possibly the only known method of maintaining the crash-warp speed of late 20th century culture. If you can't keep ahead in the stock-market ratings game or the XYZ Cup rankings then you may as well move to Berlin and become an entrenched public servant or grow subsistence crops in the Kalihari.
The education of corporate megamerger moguls started with the locker-room power-plays of the little league, all those weedy intellectuals who derided their pathetic macho posing are now grovelling to build their websites or eternally proclaiming the imminent death of too-late capitalism.
Is the solution to follow in their path, to take up the Stairmaster at age 33 after being fired from the seventeenth burger-flipping job your mother warned you against? Or a further development of the stative concentration that got you through some college degree and left you on a seat in a well-airconditioned office having orders barked at you by a commerce graduate you despised for four years of college hell?
No, the path to enlightenment is not the meditation of the fatman, the guru who within twenty four hours marries, procreates and enters a trance that his wife must physically maintain for the rest of his living days, the gnostic upload. Methods to reappropriate sporting activity, contextualised for the nonjock, moving away from brutal pounding macho-esque body building are needed.
The objective is everything, the biomechanics of existence need to be rediscovered for all and sundry, perceptions and hand-eye coordination on scales other than holding a pen or touchtyping or tetris, control dis-covered, de-covered and expropriated for general consumption.
