Participant Vs Contestant

The inherent order in Nature specifically warns everyone not to go beyond a limit that also is inherent in one and all. These inherent limitations can never be considered as defects or deficiencies of the manifestations concerned. Such limitations only specify a simple fact that such demonstrations can be seen in space and time. The observances of the inherent limits are technically called as self-regulation. Self-regulation is a mode of life practice to be observed by one and all at every level. Brahmacharia technically aims at the practice of self-regulation in words and deeds. Market economy on the contrary believes that there is no such limit; hence no need of regulations of any sort. That is why it aims at the maximum in words and deeds. The result of such an act is that one has to live in a world where there is no regulation at all in words. This can be seen in the regular discourses of the news media. Take for ex. in all the reality shows, an Anchor uses the term ‘contestant’ to denote a performer, who is expected to be on the screen. The unfortunate factor is that in earlier times the word used to denote a performer was ‘participant’. There are acute differences between a participant and a performer. The aim of the contestant is to get victory over his ‘rivals’. Naturally, a contestant will use any means to defeat his rival. A participant, on the contrary, believes in performance. He/she claims only that this is what he/she has to do in this particular context. Participant shows his/her experience within the rest. A participant never wants to defeat anyone. He only wants to express his mite; the participant is the contributor to his mite in the totality of the art form in which he/she works. For ex. Beethoven and Mozart were not rivals but they contributed their share to the vast ocean of music to make it greater. A contestant, on the contrary, accumulates everything including his own experience for himself. The result of such a discourse is that our system of language has been polluted with the philosophy of the maximum. That is, market economy directly affects the transparency, clarity and lucidity of language systems. Instead of using the minimum words, an Anchor uses a diarrhea of words that signify almost nothing.