Winning
Winning is the central value of hanyo philosophy. It is more important than happiness. Winning requires that everybody else lose. It does not matter if the winner also 'loses' in the objective sense provided everybody else loses more. Winning is therefore relative and requires victims.
Zigsa answers the question, 'Who is a hanyo?' in Puzzle One of the Karma Sutra:
A hanyo is someone who believes three things. One, everything in the world, including people, exists for his use and pleasure. Most hanyos will tell you this quite freely whenever you question anything they say. They tell you God, or the Market, or Evolution, or Science or Genetics has made them better than chicks and slags and that is why chicks, slags and nature belong to them, take orders from them and are consumed by them. They cannot be argued out of this opinion, though they often enjoy the spectacle of people trying to do it and failing.
Two, the best thing that can happen to a hanyo is to win. In hanyo town, being a winner is far better than being happy, or rather, hanyos think there is no happiness without winning, and moreover winning makes you happy like nothing else. How do you win? By making other people lose. If a hanyo can’t make another hanyo lose, he’ll go and find a person to ‘defeat’ instead. That’s why they torture us, starve us, rob us, rape us and tell us our pain is our fault. We are weak, they say, stupid, unsuspecting, soft-hearted, soft-headed, soft-bodied, soft-spoken punching bags created for them to shove their pain into. Our weakness is their reason for and provocation to mastery: they rule us because they can and should and we can’t and shouldn’t. They are all standing with their feet wedged on a button marked, ‘I HATE LOSERS’.
However, everyone in hanyo town is a loser, including the hanyos, because the game is rigged in favour of the whole bunch of hanyos against any one hanyo. Every hanyo therefore hates himself for being a closet loser, and secretly knows that all his winnerhood is a sham in danger of being exposed or outed by his enemies. The only thing a hanyo hates more than himself is a happy person, because a happy person, he thinks, is a winner who must be defeated at all cost. Then we’ll see who’s laughing. A happy person might also be someone who knows how and why the whole of hanyo town is a scam to be escaped as soon as feasible, but people of that type are too wise to show their true faces to hanyos.
Three, a hanyo believes he feels no pain. Apart from physical pain, which hanyos do not feel because of their disease, there are two other kinds of pain: grief and shame. Hanyos choose not to feel them. When grief and shame come flying at them, they turn them into anger and punch them into the nearest loser. That’s why every hanyo is surrounded by a circle of hanyobait whose job it is to absorb this anger, accept the punishment, clean up after and smile as if all is well. Hanyos only admit their pain to people who have no power over them, because in hanyo town, to admit your pain to someone more powerful than you equals losing. If a hanyo shows you his pain, he will act as if he’s giving you a great prize or a valuable secret. He’ll say, ‘You’re special. I can open up to you.’ What he’s really saying is, ‘I know you have no hope of defeating me, so why don’t you side with me and comfort me? If you do it well, I won’t hurt you (much), I might even reward you. Won’t that be fun for you and me? Now get down on your knees and give me some sweet sympathy.’
