We're observing a mentality here that is fixed on one goal, one reason for being, one excuse for living. They have not integrated their working lives into an overall plan for living. They are not real people, they are only partial human beings. They are incomplete, so totally lacking they don't even realize it. So crippled they can't even imagine it.

The story is that UCLA Bruins football coach, Red Sanders, once said "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." This quote is often brought up as evidence of determination, commitment, single-minded devotion to a goal. To me, it is just evidence of an impoverished spirit; a fundamental lack of humanity. To feel that way about anything is tragic. To feel that way about an amusement, a mere game, is an obscenity.