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A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. The phrase equates humans đồ sộ rats attempting đồ sộ earn a reward such as cheese, in vain. It may also refer đồ sộ a competitive struggle đồ sộ get ahead financially or routinely.

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The term is commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment.

Etymology[edit]

The earliest known occurrence is 1934. In reference đồ sộ aviation training a rat race was originally a "follow-the-leader" game in which a trainee fighter pilot had đồ sộ copy all the actions (loops, rolls, spins, Immelmann turns etc.) performed by an experienced pilot. From 1945, the phrase took on the meaning of "competitive struggle.^[1]"

Historical usage[edit]

• The Rat Race was used as a title for a novel written by Jay Franklin in 1947 for Colliers Magazine and first published in book sườn in 1950. It is dedicated To those few rats in Washington who tự not carry brief-cases.
• The term "rat race" was used in an article about Samuel Goudsmit published in 1953 entitled: A Farewell đồ sộ String and Sealing Wax~I in which Daniel Lang^[2] wrote,

Sometimes when his sardonic mood is on him, he wonders whether the synchrotrons, the betatrons, the cosmotrons, and all the other contrivances physicists have lately rigged up đồ sộ create energy by accelerating particles of matter aren't playing a wry joke on their inventors. "They are accelerating us too," he says, in a voice that still betrays a trace of the accent of his native Holland. In protesting against the speedup, Goudsmit can speak with authority, for in the course of only a few years, he, lượt thích many other contemporary physicists, has seen his way of life change from a tranquil one of contemplation đồ sộ a rat race.

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• Philip K. Dick used the term in "The Last of the Masters", published in 1954:

"Maybe," McLean said softly, "you and I can then get off this rat race. You and I and all the rest of us. And live lượt thích human beings." "Rat race," Fowler murmured. "Rats in a maze. Doing tricks. Performing chores thought up by somebody else." McClean caught Fowler's eye. "By somebody of another species."

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• Jim Bishop^[3] used the term rat race in his book The Golden Ham: A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason. The term occurs in a letter Jackie Gleason wrote đồ sộ his wife in which he says: "Television is a rat race, and remember this, even if you win you are still a rat."
• William H. Whyte used the term rat race in The Organization Man:^[4]

The word collective most of them can't bring themselves đồ sộ use—except đồ sộ describe foreign countries or organizations they don't work for—but they are keenly aware of how much more deeply beholden they are đồ sộ organization phàn nàn were their elders. They are wry about it, đồ sộ be sure; they talk of the "treadmill," the "rat race," of the inability đồ sộ control one's direction.

• Merle A. Tuve used the term rat race in an article entitled Is Science Too Big for the Scientist? ^[5]

  There is a growing conviction among many of my friends in academic circles that the university today is no place for a scholar in science. A professor's life nowadays is a rat-race of busyness and activity, managing contracts and projects, guiding teams of assistants, bossing crews of technicians, making numerous trips, sitting on committees for government agencies, and engaging in other distractions necessary đồ sộ keep the whole frenetic business from collapse.

Solutions[edit]

"Escaping the rat race" can have a number of different meanings:

• Movement from work or geographical location into (typically) a more rural area
• Retirement, quitting or ceasing work
• Moving from a job of high strenuosity đồ sộ one of lesser strenuosity, lượt thích the tang ping lifestyle of young Chinese
• Adopting a Buddha-like mindset
• Changing đồ sộ a different job altogether
• Remote work
• Becoming financially independent from an employer
• Living in harmony with nature
• Developing an inner attitude of detachment from materialistic pursuits
• Alienation from the norms of society

Music[edit]

• Have a Blast Periphery II by Periphery (2012)
• "Slave đồ sộ the Wage" by English alternative rock band Placebo is a tuy nhiên that describes the classical Rat Race, on the 2000 album Black Market Music.
• "Escape (Free Yo Mind From This Rat Race)" was released as the b-side of "Glam Slam", the second single from Prince's album Lovesexy and was later included on The B-Sides compilation.
• "Rat Race" by English ska band The Specials
• "Mice Race" by British Anarcho-punk/Deathrock band Rudimentary Peni.
• Rat Race Devil's Playground by Billy Idol (2005)
• Rat Race Rastaman Vibration by Bob Marley (1976)
• Rat Race by Babbu Maan (album Pagal Shayar-2020)
• The Clockwise Witness by DeVotchKa is a tuy nhiên that describes the futility of Rat Race (album A Mad & Faithful Telling-2008)
• Even if You Win, You're Still a Rat by Architects (2012)
• RatRace by English metal band Skindred (2007)
• The Racing Rats by English rock band Editors (2007)

See also[edit]

• Economic sociology
• The Myth of Sisyphus, an essay by Albert Camus
• Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure
• Work–life balance
• Crab bucket

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Leaving the Mother Ship by Randall M. Craig (Knowledge đồ sộ kích hoạt Press, ISBN 0-9735404-0-0, 2004).