The rules of the game...

Got my mums TV on next door and catching stuff from the news on Wall Street about gambling strategies factoring in the uncertainties of government decisions.

What I have been focusing on in the last few months about the nature of Laws and Rules is so obvious. Peoples lives are made and broken on the financial rules. People say that life is tough, it is a dog eat dog world, the fittest survive etc etc yet all these things are not Laws but the rules of the game. When the establishment comes under threat suddenly the rules all change. It is what we always knew, it is a gigantic game.

This places economics in the same camp then as the IRB (International Rugby Board) discussing the benfits on the game of raising the try value to 5 points (from the original 4) or switching possession after a stalled ruck or maul. These were calculated rule changes that were seen to improve the game. Just as the laws of economics are. But unlike real Laws they are not Real, and they can be changed.

So all those people who make and break lives within the rules of the economy and employment are actually not Really making or breaking their lives! Their measure is artificial and can be changed over night. Imagine if gold was confiscated again by the government, or money was abolished! In a second the lives of many who were "made" would suddenly be broken. How fragile this world of illusions!

Yet the true realities of food and health, these Laws remain regardless what the "law" makers say. It is amazing how our eyes are so completely obliterated from Reality by this pantomine of status and social order.

Whatever happens in the economy, in politics, in national defence, in the law courts or in any such arenas none of this is real. The spring comes, and the grass grows all by itself.

Sadly however the not seeing of Reality has profound impact from Real poverty, sadness, selfishness, greed, and destruction. What solution can there be to this oldest of human illnesses?