What Is The Theme Of Blobbery By Tucker

Are you a winner or a loser? Do you cheer for your favorite sport team? What are your reactions when they have won or lost a game? I bet you would be upset when they lose a game. In the essay, “Blobbery,” Carli Tucker describes the intent of New Game Foundation, a group who wants to develop and promote non-competitive games where they are no losers or winners. It is because they think competition “encourages antagonism,” “traumatizes losers,” and “frequently creates ill feeling between losers and winners.” However, Tucker argues that people “play competitive games to validate their sense of worth” rather than “having fun interacting,” which is the aim of New Games Foundation. Why must we promote one type over another when we could have both? …show more content…
It is fun to try to win, as well as exciting the audiences for entertainment. It is also our nature to try to “validate our sense of worth” as pointed out by Tucker. To validate ourselves is to try our hardest at something. We take pride in our best moment and reflecting on it as our meaning in life. Not only do we feel the need to prove ourselves to others, but we also transfer this notion into our nation or a group larger than ourselves. This can be seen through FIFA World Cups every four years. A competition of soccer game between nations around the world. The goal is to be known as the player but also to bring this pride to the nation. Also, there is the NFL Super Bowl every year in the US. I remember seeing how exciting my school teacher was couple days before the Super Bowl started. The Super Bowl is a competition of American football game on a national level. It is an event that many people in the US are excited about. However, if in a soccer game or football game, players do not compete to win, instead, passing the ball back and forth, it would not be exciting much, either for the players or the viewers. Thus, we need competition that has winners and