Our Weakest Link

It’s about controlled, psychological experiments measured and reported for any geographical locations, for any given historical times, with given psychical manipulations by governances and religious fundamentalists: the shame factor—our weakest link—is ubiquitous. As we know, shame has with it feelings of not belonging; regret; feeling separate from each other. ¹

A form of generating certain illusions for separation was mathematically derived in the 1950s by Game Theory (as in paranoic gamblers sitting around a table, holding cards that are secret from other players). As the theory goes, a measured effect of shame comes from paranoia, out of which many Earthlings have been trained to monitor, strategize, adjust, and optimize what they want against optimized wants of another, ever widening yet stabilizing the sense of separation from each other.

Here’s another observation of game theory. Players suspect other players’ paranoia due to whatever resources one player wants from another, and all exchanges between players become the equilibrium, the rules of the game. So, if one player chooses not to cooperate, the equilibrium ends, and what was quiet chaos could show up clamorous. Refer Wikipedia

Variations of game theory eventually filtered throughout RAND and the military industrial-complex by computer generated performance initiatives. Relevant incentives were promoted as factors of shame—our weakest link—if a player chose not to play the game properly. At various times, modeled incentives for personal gain have been accepted by various nations’ leaders and politicians.

I thought that game theory is liken to what we’ve called human nature, but not exactly: game theory exposes the gnarled nature of the hierarchical man’s world in which we live, nay, for millennia squeezing (feminine, inclusive) intuition through a funnel into narrowed perceptions, expressed in exclusively masculine terms. How could the theory explain anything other than a global measurement of a pseudo equilibrium, managed by money and paranoia, in the ruthless male-trained world? In what ways does the theory reveal games within personal relationships?

Psychologically, women and children too often loose. Their cyclic losses and gains disappear in endlessly factored equations and projections for more scientifically modeled behavior, which molds minds into stiffened societies plagued by myopic advertisers, at any pre-determined times, in any geographical locations. We global sisters and brothers have a great work in front of us: for starters, mentally managing the global market place of conflicting memes, while staying awake to a diminution of democracy—of and by and—for the people, while collectively integrating the simplest mysteries of our species and the physical Universe.

It is our job to stay awake to a man’s world caustically ruled by secrets, while simultaneously awake to a transparent, amiable world as much as we may intuit the world to be. I gawk, sometimes upset to a point of getting up and moving away from the documents I’m reading, or from a documentary I’m viewing, which report unimaginable, galling ploys that invisibly stalk Earthling sensibilities. I gawk at nearly every unnoticed nuance brought to my attention, and wittingly put on my curiosity cap!

¹ Refer synopses from The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom, a BBC documentary, 2007; 165 minutes

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead