I cannot help but think that much of the turmoil in the modern age relates directly to the way we treat losers, or on the very concept of loserdom itself.  The word “loser” brings up a host of memories for me, such as a D.A.R.E. officer telling our elementary school classroom that people who smoke weed are “losers”, my baseball coach telling us not to be losers, and plenty of other snippets of adults referring to each other as losers in an effort to mock and deme...