Most recent public comments by v frank asaro, J.D. v frank asaro https://nowcomment.com/users/4774 https://nowcomment.com/documents/10968?scroll_to=90705 https://nowcomment.com/documents/10968?scroll_to=90705 Co-opetition is an antidote to polarization. The aim is to get opponents in any field, especially in politics, to come to the realization that nature has provided us with the instinct for combining the conduct of competing, with the conduct of cooperating when we thrash out our differences. We find that the problem is more easily resolved if we understand that some of both these behaviors is in every equation for living. It isn’t a question of compromise, nor is it an either / or proposition. It is a question of finding the asymmetric balance between the two behaviors. Examples of that instinct abound. We probably evolved to show a smile in part because we needed to work as a team, like in hunting. We needed to cooperate to survive. But at the same time we needed to compete for our share of the food for ourselves and our families. It was bad form, however, for us to compete too strongly against our team mates – let’s say by grabbing all the food - because the others might likely ostracize us from the team. So we had to synthesize the two behaviors of competing and cooperating. In short, we instinctively, non-consciously, practiced co-opetition in order to remain on the team. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:01:47 -0400