More on Games...

We satisfy ourselves playing the various games of life be they relationships, money, social status etc. We are like people stuck in a cosmic chess game who spend so much time working out the next move that they forget to look around and decide whether they even wanted to even play chess in the first place! But how many people ask themselves whether they want to play these games? We accept that we are in games of economics or sex for example but why don't we question the games themselves? Can we chose the games that we play and is it possible to escape from games.

The kids today (like in my day) are stuck within incredibly defined boundaries. The media hypes kids as rebellious and a danger to society but after several months of GCSE tuition I can say that the lives' of the youth are even more hijacked by the games of the establishment today than ever before. Maybe kids think it cool to carry knives etc but at the same time they have got to support the right trainers, or mobile phone or listen to the right "under ground" music. All this is commercial, strictly controlled marketing - unawares they are playing within the rules of society. Being kids they never realise because kids have small unworldly brains - that is a feature they will always have. The question is how many people ever grow out of being a kid however. I am lucky I never understood what the establishment was trying to say to me - so by default I rebelled - I simply couldn't/can't understand how the clothes we wear make any difference. Maybe I'm mildly autistic, but its a blindness which we need if we are to have any choice about the games we play. On the other hand people pretend to understand but can anyone really explain how the fabric that we surround ourselves with makes any difference to anything (apart from being dry and warm)? So if we can't explain it, have we really chosen to play the fashion game? And if we can explain it we have done so "outside" the fashion game (self-reference hypothesis) so what reasons for fashion are their that are not fashion themselves? tricky waters!