Greetings good citizen, just did some research on the mechanics of the prisoner's dilemma and found it to be less than useful. While it is obvious that we 'should be' better off if we cooperated with one another, we aren't in control of major variables so we are left playing 'go along to get along' until we don't.
While the prisoner's dilemma is understood to be about the 'sentencing game' it tells us little about the practical problem presented by those born in prison and rely on the jailers for EVERYTHING (because that's the REAL prisoner's dilemma!)
How do you escape the hand that feeds and clothes you?
YOU are such a 'prisoner'. Left to our own devices the vast majority of us would perish in a most gruesome manner [starvation is physically agonizing and even more difficult to 'witness'.]
So let's put the 'rugged individual myth' to rest. Our survival is predicated on cooperation and our subjugation also depends upon 'complicity' among the conspirators.
Neither can do it alone...although eventually one 'side' ends up holding all of the pieces. Doesn't matter which side because the conspirators share an identical goal of keeping the masses docile [via religion] and believing they are 'free'.
The prisoners condition themselves to accept the role they are given (because the alternative is death) and the conspirators (more commonly referred to as 'the lucky ones') keep 'trimming the slag' wherever they can. [Again I create my own term for the 'illusion sustaining material' our feeble efforts produce that we use to differentiate ourselves from one another.]
Carnys call it slum but it's the same difference. Slag is the by-product of the refining process, the part that is normally thrown away.
Yet we use it to disguise ourselves so we need not look in the mirror and accept that it is our own kind doing this to us. The worst of us use it to elevate themselves above the rest but here we return to the 'broken mind' syndrome that permeates society from top to bottom.
Jailer is a full time job and there is zero irony that the jailer is just as much a prisoner as the rest of us. Yet stupid keeps reporting to work and following the orders of his frustrated superiors never realizing he's on the inside of the same cesspool he maintains for his masters.
And Master? He isn't going anywhere either...which is why he is obsessed with heading off revolt. His 'favored' position depends on it and he has had time to consider what he'd do if he could get his hands on the people responsible for marooning him here.
He doesn't want those people getting their hands on him...
How's that for a 'shitshow in a bottle?'
Yet we face a different conundrum created by the mismanagement of the planets resources and the inevitable collapse of the old methods.
The jailers have to allow the prisoners more 'freedom' if the system is to avoid collapsing upon itself.
Sadly this is precisely what the jailers were taught to avoid, that their continued superiority depends on despair.
This, as history has demonstrated repeatedly, is the recipe for disaster...and collapse.
Have you come to the conclusion that YOU are NOT a prisoner? [Where do you 'think' you're going?] The inside of your head is all of the 'running room' you've got! Time to start treating this prison like the home it actually is!
And guess what else? You have to share it with everyone else here whether you like it or not!
Remember the REAL 'Prisoner's Dilemma' (comply or DIE!) You go along or you cease to be a factor!
Some of you would embrace the 'sweet release' of death but you can't help but wonder if maybe you're already there...
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head (because in the end it's all the 'freedom' you have!)
Gegner
While the prisoner's dilemma is understood to be about the 'sentencing game' it tells us little about the practical problem presented by those born in prison and rely on the jailers for EVERYTHING (because that's the REAL prisoner's dilemma!)
How do you escape the hand that feeds and clothes you?
YOU are such a 'prisoner'. Left to our own devices the vast majority of us would perish in a most gruesome manner [starvation is physically agonizing and even more difficult to 'witness'.]
So let's put the 'rugged individual myth' to rest. Our survival is predicated on cooperation and our subjugation also depends upon 'complicity' among the conspirators.
Neither can do it alone...although eventually one 'side' ends up holding all of the pieces. Doesn't matter which side because the conspirators share an identical goal of keeping the masses docile [via religion] and believing they are 'free'.
The prisoners condition themselves to accept the role they are given (because the alternative is death) and the conspirators (more commonly referred to as 'the lucky ones') keep 'trimming the slag' wherever they can. [Again I create my own term for the 'illusion sustaining material' our feeble efforts produce that we use to differentiate ourselves from one another.]
Carnys call it slum but it's the same difference. Slag is the by-product of the refining process, the part that is normally thrown away.
Yet we use it to disguise ourselves so we need not look in the mirror and accept that it is our own kind doing this to us. The worst of us use it to elevate themselves above the rest but here we return to the 'broken mind' syndrome that permeates society from top to bottom.
Jailer is a full time job and there is zero irony that the jailer is just as much a prisoner as the rest of us. Yet stupid keeps reporting to work and following the orders of his frustrated superiors never realizing he's on the inside of the same cesspool he maintains for his masters.
And Master? He isn't going anywhere either...which is why he is obsessed with heading off revolt. His 'favored' position depends on it and he has had time to consider what he'd do if he could get his hands on the people responsible for marooning him here.
He doesn't want those people getting their hands on him...
How's that for a 'shitshow in a bottle?'
Yet we face a different conundrum created by the mismanagement of the planets resources and the inevitable collapse of the old methods.
The jailers have to allow the prisoners more 'freedom' if the system is to avoid collapsing upon itself.
Sadly this is precisely what the jailers were taught to avoid, that their continued superiority depends on despair.
This, as history has demonstrated repeatedly, is the recipe for disaster...and collapse.
Have you come to the conclusion that YOU are NOT a prisoner? [Where do you 'think' you're going?] The inside of your head is all of the 'running room' you've got! Time to start treating this prison like the home it actually is!
And guess what else? You have to share it with everyone else here whether you like it or not!
Remember the REAL 'Prisoner's Dilemma' (comply or DIE!) You go along or you cease to be a factor!
Some of you would embrace the 'sweet release' of death but you can't help but wonder if maybe you're already there...
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head (because in the end it's all the 'freedom' you have!)
Gegner
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