The Asymmetric Universe

Everyone alive lives in an asymmetric,
out-of-kilter, world where the main point
for each and every struggler is trying to make
the asymmetric competitiveness work better
for them, or if they are generous attempting
to make he asymmetry a win-win life,
in the short and mid term at least.

This applies whether it is gender based rights,
disparities in wealth, and goes down to privacy
or personally defendable space in a house
and up to the imbalance in propaganda
and military hardware when your country
is at war with another, or an empire
and the first fight is for your own truth
so feel free enough to ask  'Who does asymmetry favour?
and think that you can get an answer worth hearing.

When you can't ask, then 'loser' is a rhetorical term,
and 'winners' will only talk among themselves.

But beyond the label we choose, or can't escape,
this asymmetry goes beyond Darwinian competition,
where Darwin ignored Kropotkin-style co-operation,
it goes to show how we seem to be alone in the universe,
until we learn how to recognise contented alien life forms.