Pyrrhic Victorys

One of my all time passions is the classics. Not classical literature mind you, but the study of the two great classical civilizations (Rome and Greece). My all time favorite story/historical account from this time is Thucydides. The way my boy Alcibiades comes off in the story is just straight up pimp. If you ever see me out sometime I can recount the story.

However, we are not here to talk about my favorite story or even my second, or really even my third. No we are here to talk about the war Carthaginian War. If me memory serves* we get the phrase Pyrrhic Victory from that war. I have often believed that there is no such thing as a Victory where you still lose. I tend to look at winning and losing as binary situations. They are states that can not exist at the exact same time. Now sure you can lose and still do something that feels awesome, but at the end of the day you still lost.

Well this weekend I witnessed a few things that made me wonder about this concept. My college football team lost, but they didn't lose nearly as bad as expected. Is that really a win? I don't think so, but I some how felt more ok that we didn't get blown out by fifty.

Then my pro-football team went out and pissed away another victory because we apperently forgot how to do the thing we are best at, but on the bright side our second year running back had a carrier game.

And now...we have this...one of the most beautiful shot shows I have ever seen, wins an Emmy right after it's canceled. Fuck the world is all I can say.**




*To lazy to do the research to confirm this morning

**Odds are this video will get pulled. When that happens I'll find another.