I detest excellence.

I guess this explains why you wallow in shit.

D'A

Excellence is a virtue, so it would be unwise to detest a virtue. Excellence is the expression of a constellation of virtues, if not all virtue. But I can see how some would equate the concept with success (which isn't a virtue) and why you criticise those who hold to this misconception.

Well, AFAIK the prefix "ex-" means to leave, an excel I guess means to rise above and leave behind. There appears to be very little "community spirit" in the concept of excelling. In contrast, it seems to be very separatist.

Success, on the other hand is involved with "others", but it is a matter of succeeding over them. If this is a playful game (rather than e.g. a fight to the death), I might even prefer that to an attitude of leaving the others behind. However, I'm afraid you are right, insofar as success usually leave the loser defeated in a rather severe and combative manner.

online: That is an great point. I certainly don't want a doctor that excelled in medical school in my community because he would of necessity have risen above and left behind the other members of the community.

Instead, everyone in the community should be exactly as good as everyone else at everything because I can't cope with someone else being better at something than I am.

Or maybe that would be stupid.

As Vynce points out in the linked to claim above, I guess I may have misinterpreted success somewhat... perhaps I am influenced more by the way the term is often used today as if it were related to a contest (against others). Indeed, the term is probably more appropriately used to mean "the attainment of the desired result" (and this outcome / goal need not be related to any competitive undertaking).

My comment was about excellence, and not success.

I've already voted on the success claim, as I recall.

excellence comes with yes