Sorry, Mary, but I think it's a laughable effort to sanitize
the notion of competition, while everyone involved knows that it IS a competition for very big bucks.
I take your point about sanitizing competition, but Mary has a point about the Oscars. Actors don't go to work with competition in their minds. They go to make art. Once the nominations are due for Oscars, then they feel competitive, but their accomplishments, their performances, are in the past. What is happening is not so much competition as acknowledgement for those accomplishments, not actually competing, for the most part. Yes, some gaming goes on post performance and that is competitive, but the performances themselves aren't competitive.
This isn't a black/white thing. There's a continuum of competitiveness in the real world. The 100-meter sprint at the Olympics is on one end. Competition is primary and explicit. The competitiveness on the other end tapers off to all but nothing, as in awards and commodations, like medals for soldiers. Recognizing that isn't sanitizing. |
