Why Corruption/Deception Is Part Of Every Game

[Razard86]

What is a game? An activity that is engaged in through competition to produce a winner and loser. The biggest game obviously is the game of survival. Now because the biggest stake is your life and losing means the end of that life there are no bigger stakes that can be played. To gain any advantage in a game you must deceive your opponent. In basketball to beat your opponent off the dribble you have to feint (pretend to go in one direction) and then go in the opposite direction as quickly as possible with the ball. This is called a cross over. When finishing at the rim, to avoid being blocked you can do what is called and up and under. Where you pretend to finish with a layup and at the last second bring your arms down and finish at a different angle. 

In chess, you place your movements in a way to trick your opponent so he cannot figure out how you hope to obtain his King. In the jungle the iguana matches whatever his environment is. The Lion sneaks up on his prey and at the last moment pounces on him and eats him. This means that all games that involve competition are inherently deceptive. This means if you play any game being a great deceiver is a strong characteristic. Notice this!!

As long as you are competing to get what you want, not deceiving actually holds you back. So the very core foundation of all games, rears its ugly head in the extremes when people find ways to even bend the rules or create entirely different ones. Notice how we justify some deception and others we demonize. This is how you can get lost in your own games that you cannot even see straight anymore. All deception is lies, manipulation, greed, and a desire to gain control. Now I am not demonizing it, I am just presenting what it is. 

So a white lie is deception, manipulation, greed, and a desire to gain control. People tell white lies all the time because they fear the reaction someone will have if they really knew how they felt about something or someone. Since society runs on white lies that they call being civil or polite, the shadow that comes up out of that is gossip, envy, jealousy, and cliques. In sports such as basketball and futbol you get awarded points for being fouled so what some players do is they pretend to be fouled called "flopping" to gain an edge. Gossiping is not different. Think about it? If I cannot say how I truly feel around you, I'll say how I truly feel about you to someone else. So all gossip is deception, manipulation, greed, and a desire to control. Again this is not demonization, it's illumination. 

This is why all identity games create conflict, and always contradict themselves. Why? Well its obvious, if there is only one being playing all the roles, then paradox, contradiction, is inevitable. So what is the solution? All identities awaken to the fact that they are one self and then the gameless game can be played. What is the gameless game? The game that has no desire to win or lose, the game that transcends survival. Paradoxically when this game is played survival will actually be taken care of much more efficiently than when it is a competition for it. This is why awareness, truth, love, are curative. Until then, every game is just a game of who can trick/deceive who better. 

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Razard86

[Inliytened1]

@Razard86 in competition, ego takes over and your true self takes a back seat.   This is because the ego does not like losing.   It will feel inferior.  This is simply  that it is inferior to "other" in some type of way.  Be it physical or mental.  The ego does not grasp that physical and mental is a duality - nor does it grasp that the opponent is none other than itself.  It only wants to win. 

[Breakingthewall]

survival is legitimate and competition is legitimate. If I say: let's play, I'm going to try to fool you, and you're going to try to fool me. I'm going to try to be faster, smarter, better.  that's ok. It helps me get the best out of me, and helps the other to do the same. If I start a business, I see how things are and I think: I'm going to try to do a little better than the others, to contribute something that they don't, to keep more of the pie. it's legit. So they have to improve, everything is optimized. If one has to leave because I am stronger, I'm sorry. Maybe next time I'll be the one to lose. Another thing is that I cheat. that's not legitimate, and it doesn't offer good long-term results.

[Inliytened1]

1 minute ago, Breakingthewall said:

survival is legitimate and competition is legitimate. If I say: let's play, I'm going to try to fool you, and you're going to try to fool me. I'm going to try to be faster, smarter, better.  that's ok. It helps me get the best out of me, and helps the other to do the same. If I start a business, I see how things are and I think: I'm going to try to do a little better than the others, to contribute something that they don't, to keep more of the pie. it's legit. So they have to improve, everything is optimized. If one has to leave because I am stronger, I'm sorry. Maybe next time I'll be the one to lose. Another thing is that I cheat. that's not legitimate, and it doesn't offer good long-term results.

Man will do what is required to survive.   The bottom line I would say to him is don't demonize survival.   Don't demonize anything actually.  And then you will rise above self bias.

[Razard86]

4 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

Man will do what is required to survive.   The bottom line I would say to him is don't demonize survival.   Don't demonize anything actually.  And then you will rise above self bias.

Exactly, don't demonize anything, don't desire anything, and allow others to be influenced by your lack of desire/agenda.