Will to Win
The West At Play
Published on 11. August 2014
124 pages
978-1-74298-335-6 (ISBN)
Description
How has sport, starting as the happy games of childhood, become branded as an endless competition of 'winning' and 'losing'? Why is the public apparently 'unperturbed' with humiliating so many people? It can 'cost' five thousand 'losers' to produce one 'winner' - sport, a 'weapon of mass destruction'.
Will to Win tries to explain why millions trek weekly to its myriad global chapels/stadiums for worship, blessing and succour, and how it spreads its tentacles across the globe, and floods daily media. And how it has the confidence to believe its 'winners' can teach the community how to become 'successful' in business and life. This book is a work of reflection by a social scientist.
Will to Win tries to explain why millions trek weekly to its myriad global chapels/stadiums for worship, blessing and succour, and how it spreads its tentacles across the globe, and floods daily media. And how it has the confidence to believe its 'winners' can teach the community how to become 'successful' in business and life. This book is a work of reflection by a social scientist.
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Content
- Intro
- Will to Win
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Mystique and Reality
- 2. War Games
- 3. Winning - At Any Cost
- 4. Lost Souls
- 5. The Endless Watch
- 6. Performance Arts
- 7. 'Much Ado About Nothing'
- 8. Its Drama, Its Parody, Its Lie
- 9. The Global Power of Winning
- 10. Alternatives to Fighting a Battle
- 11. 'To Succeed is to Fail'
- A Parable for These Times
- A Fable for These Coming Times
- Select Bibliography
