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>The scale of modern problems are just so large it seems like the only winning move is not to play at all, over and over again. This is a bit of a drive-by com
by invalidOrTaken 8y ago
>The scale of modern problems are just so large it seems like the only winning move is not to play at all, over and over again.
This is a bit of a drive-by comment and I apologize for that, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about "only-winning-move-is-not-to-play" games, and wanted to share what I've learned.
OWMINTP games seem imposing and impossible when we talk about them, but often their solution comes from outside the game. And the great thing is that often these games don't constitute the whole of our lives, which means we can focus on other games. Eventually OWMINTP games can get solved from the outside, which is great, because we live outside.
Anyway: unasked for, and kind of off-topic, but I wanted to share.
- salawat 8y agoI appreciate the comment, and agree with your viewpoint. It's somewhat of an interesting area of thought of mine as well. The difficulty is what counts as "outside" of the civilized world as we've built it, and if we found it, would we find ourselves in a crisis of the sort faced by Mr. Savage in Huxley's Brave New World? A natural man woefully equipped to survive in the unnatural world we've built around ourselves, but at the same time unable to return to living in a more natural state by virtue of what he'd become in trying to adapt? Natural man facing unnatural problems he is powerless to solve due to his maladaptation to the world he has wrought, yet unable to escape or return to whence he came. It's like some nightmarish Hotel California conundrum.