September 27, 2011

Play Games

The financial nonsense continues to provide cognitive dissonance - but more people are turning to games as means of keeping entertained. This is the first step to recreate our games into an education system. Game players learn quickly and pursue epic wins - Dr. Jane McGonigal is my new hero! The object is to be playing the right games. (look for her TED talk)

I play chess derivatives. These are games that use chess pieces, but push the envelope in how they are used. The wierdest non-chess game is racing kings - no real chess involved. I play mushroom chess - where you are kept in the dark and shoveled sh*t until you figure out what you opponent is up to. It is called Lao Tzu Chess.

I enjoy games where players must cooperate to get to their victory. I remember Gauntlet - a four player game where the monsters kept coming. Five dollars worth of quarters with four separate people - an elf, a valkrye, a thumper and a healer - get to team up and we could get three hours for our 20 bucks (after many 30 minute trials). Now how many kids have five bucks a day to burn today?

The Dungeons and Dragons role playing games set the stage for new games like Project Restoration. PR is a move to change the world, by playing a game. I have a Simultaneous Civilization game buried within the PR context, hopefully developing a virtual Mondragon model that can get us through some of the tough decisions before they become real.

Concepts of equity are not available in the outside system, so we really have to understand that equal is not always fair. I have been blessed with natural ability to think in abstract terms and to see models as implications of what if. I tend to work up front and i always get screwed on the back end, supposedly because i make bad deals. In reality, i tend to trust people at their word and often am let down by mistakes in judgement. I will continue to make mistakes trusting people, because we need to trust each other. Now, i will deal with fewer people.

Dr. Lenny Thyme will be starting a club - Thyme Howdt. This is a means of taking time out of the rat-race and committing to personal sovereignty. If you want to be in the club, you must be able to support other sovereigns with 4 hours of work each week - this is non-self-directed obligation - with no carry-over. Reporting is transparent, all your other time is your own. This four hour tithe is called work - just document the work once - no bonus for going over.

The game plays by identifying bio-mimicry opportunities. If you can use science to demonstrate knowledge - big bonus! But science ignores so many things, that we are going to have to reclassify how we believe facts. So everybody gets to set their own rules and i share common features with other like minded avatars - until we can build an organic village that acts sort of like a borg/beehive - a collection of self-enabled teammates causing change.

If you want to play - respond to me directly through any channel that you have. The order of response is significant in some metrics, trivial in others. There will be sub-games within games and game inventors are a highly rewarded species. I will look forward to collecting a roster, with an eye on Fibonacci.

Speaking of games - the Dow is going nuts - way up - big oof coming - the monetary system is just another rigged game. Time to take thyme howdt from it all.

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