The game of life you have both to play it and to watch it. If you only try either to play it or to watch it, you lose it. Of course, it is about being specialized to be able to play at least one game of interest. It is a fact of life that people are happier when they both play and watch. It is as to say you have to give and to receive. It is as to say you have to produce what is consumed, and to consume what is produced. Between playing and watching, giving and receiving, and producing and consuming, there should be a medium of exchange.
Countries differ in terms of the number of games, players, and spectators. More games is synonym of more production, consumption, and exchange opportunities. More players is synonym of more production tools. More spectators is synonym of more consumers.
We are survivors because we like to play games. We have invented many games since we are around. We made some games longer, other shorter.
At one point, we decided to invent a game where our meat is grilled. We could have continued eating raw meat. But grilling it made the game longer, more interesting, and eventually healthier. Surely, in the beginning someone did not want to grill his share of meat. It was for him time consuming.
However, such a game suggests that we invented a way to grill. It needed a new technology. It also needed calibration, a transformation process to make it not only better, but optimal.
I am sure not everyone did the right thing at the same time. Doubt is something that has saved human being from insanity. Without doubting, we would have killed ourselves because a god wanted so. But as we doubted, we saved ourselves from trouble.
May be only one person was convinced by the transformation process. The majority eat their raw meat, and went to hunt again. Some did not come back, attacked by a ferocious animal, or by another tribe nearby. The one who stayed behind grilling his meat waited them, they came back exhausted while he was contemplating the stars. They tried to explain, but they were too tired. They went to bed. Soon they forgot themselves in irrational dreams. Many days after, the stubborn but survivors realized that sitting around a fire was a more interesting game than hunting in the middle of night. The fire lured them. It was enjoyable to be around and to let something else take over. They could see each other in the eyes, make remarks. They played together. Soon it became a special moment to talk about something from the inside. They played more and more.
While sitting someone told someone else that it would be interesting to fool people living in the next village. They went there pretending something. They found them fighting each other. The game for them was interesting. But as they approached, the smell of a grilled meat reached them. They wanted to ask what it was. They told them that the grilled meat was a new game they have discovered. It is from an area where grilled meats drop from the sky. Those who heard asked more. They wanted to know the route there. They went, they never came back. Those behind laughed. They took their wives, they made their sons slaves, they were the masters.
All kind of stories could be told to an ignorant person who did not assist to the transformation process, who did not see that it was a raw meat, there was a fire, there was people around waiting, there was a moment where they all were puzzled by the transformation. They could have said to those absent that the grilled meat was the same meat but transformed. A simple industry with a simple technology separated people from the same environment.
In countries, where different games are organized to increase the chance for every one to play at least a game that can be watched by someone else, people tend to produce more independently of the political system ruling them. In countries where games are few, people produce less, poverty tends to be the share of those who watch, and wealth the share of those who play.
All societies are inherently unequal. Different beliefs lead to different choices.
Countries differ in terms of the number of games, players, and spectators. More games is synonym of more production, consumption, and exchange opportunities. More players is synonym of more production tools. More spectators is synonym of more consumers.
We are survivors because we like to play games. We have invented many games since we are around. We made some games longer, other shorter.
At one point, we decided to invent a game where our meat is grilled. We could have continued eating raw meat. But grilling it made the game longer, more interesting, and eventually healthier. Surely, in the beginning someone did not want to grill his share of meat. It was for him time consuming.
However, such a game suggests that we invented a way to grill. It needed a new technology. It also needed calibration, a transformation process to make it not only better, but optimal.
I am sure not everyone did the right thing at the same time. Doubt is something that has saved human being from insanity. Without doubting, we would have killed ourselves because a god wanted so. But as we doubted, we saved ourselves from trouble.
May be only one person was convinced by the transformation process. The majority eat their raw meat, and went to hunt again. Some did not come back, attacked by a ferocious animal, or by another tribe nearby. The one who stayed behind grilling his meat waited them, they came back exhausted while he was contemplating the stars. They tried to explain, but they were too tired. They went to bed. Soon they forgot themselves in irrational dreams. Many days after, the stubborn but survivors realized that sitting around a fire was a more interesting game than hunting in the middle of night. The fire lured them. It was enjoyable to be around and to let something else take over. They could see each other in the eyes, make remarks. They played together. Soon it became a special moment to talk about something from the inside. They played more and more.
While sitting someone told someone else that it would be interesting to fool people living in the next village. They went there pretending something. They found them fighting each other. The game for them was interesting. But as they approached, the smell of a grilled meat reached them. They wanted to ask what it was. They told them that the grilled meat was a new game they have discovered. It is from an area where grilled meats drop from the sky. Those who heard asked more. They wanted to know the route there. They went, they never came back. Those behind laughed. They took their wives, they made their sons slaves, they were the masters.
All kind of stories could be told to an ignorant person who did not assist to the transformation process, who did not see that it was a raw meat, there was a fire, there was people around waiting, there was a moment where they all were puzzled by the transformation. They could have said to those absent that the grilled meat was the same meat but transformed. A simple industry with a simple technology separated people from the same environment.
In countries, where different games are organized to increase the chance for every one to play at least a game that can be watched by someone else, people tend to produce more independently of the political system ruling them. In countries where games are few, people produce less, poverty tends to be the share of those who watch, and wealth the share of those who play.
All societies are inherently unequal. Different beliefs lead to different choices.
No comments:
Post a Comment