A review of competition
There is very little to be done in order to prove that competition has been a rather destructive and regressive force when applied to a society. Many of us are acutely aware of this and are living under such backward systems, wherein "competition" may be more accurately described as lottery, as fixed classes of wealth, income, privilege and opportunity. That these supposedly competitive systems regress into monopolies and the like, is a clear indicator of its own unfeasability, under it's own logic.
Thus competition, inherently, cannot be a defining structure of any society. Individualism too is not suspect to competition, on the contrary: isolation has no room for competition, as it throws away any "other" to be "against". Collectivism and cooperation too, must leave no room for competition. It is the coming together of persons, rather than coming against. Competition must be the bastard child of both these tendencies, an insipid worm through which no society will be able to digest.
However, with all that has been said of Competition's ineptitude in organisation (or the lack thereof), we may extract a miniscule use of competition that can be of some tangible value, and I will be performing akin to a vulture, hastily scraping between tendons and ligaments for the edible.
Competition, as I currently believe, can be a constructive force precicely in the realm of the individual. This competition, which one must be careful to avoid turing into a destructive force, may be a kind of engine for which individuals may be able to improve their selves, to grow in character and capability. An independent competitiveness, if one can muster it, can be a motor for improvement, so long as it is treated with caution. Competition can show us our strenghts and our weaknesses. And when we exhaust our competitive spirits, then we will be able to use our grown selves to collaborate with eachother. Competition then, ought to be thought of as a tool for training and nothing more.