Supposing you went to the moon and looked at the earth as a ball from there,
You’d see only 2 games ruling the entirety of humanity.
Possession = Products of nature + Products of human effort
(Both can be bought with money)
Status = How many people like you (quantity) + How much do you like you (quality)
Now the winning condition for these games are:
The ultimate emperor of the earth = A quadrillion dollars in the bank/Ownership of everything + All 8billion people liking/adoring you to the max.
There is unbelievable sophistication that goes into the organizational structures of these 2 games,
But they are zero sum games ultimately, since there is a clear winning condition for each of them.
If you see carefully, it is merely the redrawing of boundaries.
It is like children playing with a chalk on a concrete pavement.
They draw a boundary for each of them and play games that grant the expansion of those boundaries.
So the chalk is rubbed and redrawn into a bigger circle, while the one losing has to erase and redraw a shrunken circle.
People take on and internalize archetypes of charisma to expand their fan base.
This is also the same game played in the invisible psychic sphere.
Just the redrawing of boundaries.
Something like: “I love my spouse 10x more than I love other friends male/female I have”.
So the level of liberty the spouse can take will also be 10x vs. a stranger who can take very little liberty etc.
But we’ve head of jokes right – that go something like a woman saying: “I’d still have sex if Brad Pitt asked me out etc.” which means he could usurp even those boundaries of her husband because of higher status.
Honestly marriage is just possession extended to humans.
One human possessing another.
Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 other games that are not zero sum:
‘Pursuit of knowledge for its own sake’ and ‘Accessing creative genius and leaps of insight’.
Creativity is a lot like orgasm
What is the process that leads to orgasm?
Arousal (build up) -> Increasing focus/pleasure/interest/intensity to more and more coherence -> Reaching highest coherence point, the peak attainment -> And then sliding back down with fulfillment/peace/relief/relaxation.
This is a kind of energy pattern:
It feels like all creation comes out of this energy pattern.
A man is born from an “innate inspiration energy/force” – maybe a combination of his own karmic desire and the biological desire for reproduction.
Then there is this will/desire to live/explore/conquer/experience/gather/collect/amass.
The individual then reaches his peak and enjoys the peak satisfaction and attainments.
Thereafter the energies recede into quietude and death,
Where the fire now becomes burning embers, and finally gets extinguished in ash.
The man is no more, and then there shall once again be this explosive inspiration power/energy that can bring him back into existence, to achieve/attain/actualize a new goal/possibility/ideal/inspiration.
All the way from the big bang to the mundane,
There are many day to day things that also have this process:
Making a consumer electronic purchase = similar to an orgasm.
Arousal(Research) -> Increasing immersion/interest/focus/pleasure -> Purchase(orgasm) -> Enjoyment of purchase (exploration, enjoyment, relaxation)
Even making art/writing is similar to an orgasm = the inspiration comes into you = you get immersed and give it form and then reach the peak coherence (completion of the work).
So there are many orgasms of various kinds in one’s life.
The ego itself is an orgasmic journey: From its source desire to its completion/attainment (Kohut’s tension arc in psychological terms).
Sort of like a firecracker, that moves towards the sky with great intensity/power and then “BOOM”, splatters and falls down in a shimmer.
Arousal (build up) -> Increasing focus/pleasure/interest/intensity to more and more coherence -> Reaching highest coherence point, the peak attainment -> And then sliding back down with fulfillment/peace/relief/relaxation.
This is a kind of energy pattern:
It feels like all creation comes out of this energy pattern.
A man is born from an “innate inspiration energy/force” – maybe a combination of his own karmic desire and the biological desire for reproduction.
Then there is this will/desire to live/explore/conquer/experience/gather/collect/amass.
The individual then reaches his peak and enjoys the peak satisfaction and attainments.
Thereafter the energies recede into quietude and death,
Where the fire now becomes burning embers, and finally gets extinguished in ash.
The man is no more, and then there shall once again be this explosive inspiration power/energy that can bring him back into existence, to achieve/attain/actualize a new goal/possibility/ideal/inspiration.
All the way from the big bang to the mundane,
There are many day to day things that also have this process:
Making a consumer electronic purchase = similar to an orgasm.
Arousal(Research) -> Increasing immersion/interest/focus/pleasure -> Purchase(orgasm) -> Enjoyment of purchase (exploration, enjoyment, relaxation)
Even making art/writing is similar to an orgasm = the inspiration comes into you = you get immersed and give it form and then reach the peak coherence (completion of the work).
So there are many orgasms of various kinds in one’s life.
The ego itself is an orgasmic journey: From its source desire to its completion/attainment (Kohut’s tension arc in psychological terms).
Sort of like a firecracker, that moves towards the sky with great intensity/power and then “BOOM”, splatters and falls down in a shimmer.
Journey to the Abstract 