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Date Posted: 12:45:10 05/03/08 Sat
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Final thoughts

I think we should let the wise and aged King Solomon conclude our semester of violence, rivalry, and desire. He proved so helpful in giving the baby to the two rival women. Here he concludes:

"I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind."
Ecclesiastes 4:4.

Mimetic rivalry drives human communities, and this, Solomon comments, is vain. Hesiod argues that controlled rivalry leads to the kind of competition that makes the free market work and men work harder. Solomon disagrees. This old king has watched too many men, kingdoms, and wives chase the wind as they chase each other.

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