Competition turns scarcity of resources or opportunities into skills, action, ideas. It is how life began and how it continues. We compete with our environment, with others, and with ourselves.

Competition gives us meaning, identity, diversion, and discipline. It shows us where we come from and where we are going — from our biology to our technology, from our conflicts to their resolutions.

Agonology is the systematic study of competition as a universal force: its rules, stakes, arenas, and meaning.