Distractions

Distractions are things that we pay attention to when we want to avoid paying attention to more pressing urgency. It is a necessity to take some down time when you can stop worrying about the flow of life and instead connect with life you don't have time to enjoy when the demands of the workplace put pressure on your system. I use sports and chess as my current distractions - worlds that have no connection to the body of work that i do. The entire entertainment industry serves this role, while the main stream media loses it's grip.

The latest discussion on the Lew Rockwell Blog focuses on building blog credibility. To me that means speaking howdt on issues that resonate truth. Our collective leadership has fumbled the ball at the goal-line. The truth blurs with the fiction - as demonstrated by these PSA's. So how do we manage to sustain as the cork on the champagne bottle reacts to the shaking?

We build our own reality, our own mindsets and our own system of working together. We stop the personal disintegration based on the MSM fantasy of illusion and stop plowing deeper into the abyss. Chess is a game where you follow a book agenda through the opening into the middle game, looking for a spacial advantage. I belong to a community at Scheming Mind that uses chess pieces as a take-off point to new games of skill and chance.

Alice and Stanley sitting in a tree
K-I-SS-I-N-G

As the intensity ramps up, who is controlling the pieces in the cosmic chess game, and what game are they really playing? The only one playing your game is you - and you are a role player in the many games being played by the people you know, in both the real and virtual domains. It seems that we are playing games where each of us has different rules of engagement. What is real and what is the distraction? Let's sort out where we want to be, in terms of time and space, because our response to the changes depends on which set of rules we are playing by.

lemme howdt is in lao tzu land, where the pieces are scattered, kept in the dark, and can return on the other side after capture. These themes are too close to the current reality - way more complicated than basic chess. Alice chess is a two board game, where your pieces change board after each move. Stanley Random chess has the computer make the nearest legal move for you - but doesn't really have concrete rules. Come play chess derivatives as your new distraction - while preparing mentally for the coming changes that these games model.