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December 2, 2025 – Volume One, Commentaries, Page 44: Earlier, I discussed the solition of the divine right of kings because I wanted to cover the issues of ‘better than’ in this lecture.

The phrase ‘better than’ is very human, but it has not served Humanity very well. There are certainly times when something is better: someone gets well after illness, a wrong can be redressed and rectified; someone can succeed in something long practiced, and so on, but ‘better than’ automatically engenders competition. Competition is touted as the best way to reveal strength, courage, and excellence, and yes, it can do that, but it also creates inadequacy, defeat, and self-doubt or even despair. In this sense competition is poisonous. In addition, competition has another shadow: that of ‘passing the buck:’ under the strain of having to be ‘better than,’ too many people, agencies, governments and others do their best to slide away or slide under the demands of challenges, difficult situations, and emergencies by spending unnecessary time in blame instead of acting wisely and proactively. Rather than using the phrase ‘better than’ I suggest using ‘present and responsible’ for some situations and ‘humanely committed.