February 02, 2007

Waging Peace

Negotiation is a chess game among rivals for power to see who can beat whom and outwit whom. How many simultaneous chess games can a top leader play? What qualifies him to play these games skillfully?

This is why mike rozeff is on my short list of immediate reads. He can boil down essence by analogy, to something that people can get. The guys at Scheming Mind will also get a chuckle and maybe we will get some discussion going that spills howdt to the bloggosphere. Building alternative communications networks on an interpersonal basis seems a necessary pre-condition for changing the world view from war to peace.

By the way - i currently have about 50 games going at Scheming Mind - maybe 10% are real chess. Too many, considering what i am considering, but the model of chess has helped me understand how i think in an area where i can be creative. Now the trick is to explain the how - to figure out chemically where the energy comes from when we think. Chaos and Order align with Peace and War - we do not fear peace - why the repulsion toward chaos?


Archr: I tried to comment on the blog. I think I was blacked by java (no java on my phone). So... Good metaphor. The main point of chess--the only goal--is the king. Winning all the pieces and losing the K is exactly the same as losing all the pieces and losing the king. In negotiation, it seems, one should start by precisely defining the goal. Then one should proceed with with unwavering focus. But what are worthy goals? We will never agree this side of death. So while one of is playing "Chicken Chess" and thinks he is winning, the other is playing "Racing Kings" and thinks he is doing pretty well. Archr "shooting strait (along the diagonal)"
added by lemme 02/03

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