Knight School

From re-watching these Speed Racer cartoons, through my third-eye, It has become apparent to me; that a good chunk of Gen-X, were programmed daily, in Eastern ideals of honor and self-sacrifice. The kids that were outside with the sportsballs, are the ones that learned to compete, and win. They own this America, we live in. But their competition, and therefore gain, is without honor, and has led us to a reality of President Trump, just being an accepted-thing.
This is the core of nerd vs jock. The jocks have hunger, but the nerds are self-aware, and therefore able to distinguish between honorable and dishonorable actions. More plainly, the nerds take psychic punches, from the jock world, and at their core, the nerds still prefer discomfort and ridicule, to outward material-gain that has been taken dishonorably.

The kids that werent paying attention, are now the mass, that fuels the mindless sportsball-competition, and thoughtless consumption of goods.

Punk-rock poetry, or philosophy, or something else? Please enjoy a photo of a car, decked out for the dishonorable, and bloody sport of "car-wrestling". Driven by a man who wears a lucha-mask and is known only as "X",  that still retains his honor, because the proceeds go to feed his family.

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Which brings us to out final meta moment:
Speed and Sparky are stranded in the desert, during the final race, because speed gave a can of their gas to an opponent that had run out earlier (involved story). Sparky notes that if Speed hadnt given gas, they wouldnt be stranded. Enter Racer X, who stops and repeats the mistake to Speed, telling him that as a professional his responsibility is to win a race, not to enable others. He then says, "You will remember this day for as long as you live." and drives away.
Speed falls to the ground and admits his weakness and that he is ashamed.
Sparky notices, a can of gas in  sand, left by Racer X.
Speed, raises his head, and vows to X "or whoever you are", that he has learned, and vows to make X proud in the future.

As  child, i didn't get this. I think I may have blocked it out because it conflicted with Western pre-programming from the Christian Church, (teaching that eternal suffering is honarable) and therefore created dissonance.
Had I taken that lesson to heart, in conjunction with the earlier lessons, my life would have been a lot more smooth.