Thursday, 15 October 2009

Interesting post.

Sometime a long time ago when human beings and animals today were openly brutal and fought over resources instead of shared (the age of the zero-sum game), the game of the entire species was theoretically a zero-sum game. It was fight or run away or die. There was no such thing as cooperation, of sharing, of cooperating as a species. There was no other way.

It still is a zero sum game when it comes to the species and its survival. This is due to scarcity and the strategy adopted by the most powerful members of the species, to gain more power, influence and justify its own existence and dominance using their power. 

Much of human progress as I know it, has been done to solve the issue of win-lose situations. Yet progress has only let more win-lose situations occur, as win-win situations lead to win-lose situations due to the inherent uncertainty and eventual dominance of one party. Win-lose situations then occur, human beings try to solve it, and then the cycle continues.

I do not see this issue being resolved, as we would define it in human terms. What we mean by resolved is but the changing of the system from one state to another, whereby the second state is perceived to be better. 

That is the state of nature. We are fast approaching another of those win-lose situations as a species. 

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