One of the unaddressed aspects of competition is that, when you get rid of it, and you get a nice community where everyone talks with each other and spends their time grocery shopping, going to the park and the Mall and generally being non-combattant because doing so just does not come to mind, is that people forget how bad the state with competition was. Similarly, when you are in competitive conflict, people get used to it and come to the conclusion that the world is always like this and you cannot change it. So, one state lets you fall asleep as to the problems of the other, and the other makes you think that is all you get. Clearly the solution is socialization of the knowledge around these constructs. However, operatives on both sides that want to own the authority and representative positions want to own and hide the pattern knowledge to preserve their positions. So, once again, egalitarianism and transparency and making both necessary and vital are the necessary directions for solution.
It might also be helpful to point out that the original dichotomy between the authority of truth, and the welfare of your neighbors (see God is Truth and the two most important commandments, among other things) was pretty functional, its main degeneracy being the insertion of a fictional skydaddy in the place of truth.