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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Understand, that Trump's NOT playing the Zero-Sum Game: he's playing the Negative-Sum Game, as mass-shooters are, too..

He isn't working towards future-generations' victory, rather, he's working to enforce that there IS NO US of A for anybody to be a citizen-of, after he's finished with it: he will go down in history as its last ruler..

Same as mass-shooters want glory/infamy, not long-life..

( & "journalism"'s stringing-along the false-framing that it's really otherwise, is just helping increase our body-count at the end of this decade, in treason against true Journalism's spirit )


The 5 culture-levels ( levels, not "stages", as stages are irreversable, like larval-caterpiller, but adult-giraffe, after their metamorphosis, you know? ), that are anchored on the 3 categories of Game, are:

5: Positive-Sum Game, aka Win-Win Alliance: "Living is self-inherently AWESOME!!"

4: mixed: "WE are great, THEY are not."

3: Zero-Sum Game, aka competitive-narcissism, which money-people presume that all players are playing: "I am great, others are not."

2: mixed, subject-to-narcissism's-rule: "MY life sucks."

1: Negative-Sum Game, mass-shooters, competitive-nihilism: "LIFE, ITSELF sucks, let's butcher it for importance/glory."

You can watch the simplified-condensed version here: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership & if you find that understanding the 5 cultures is important to you, because you want to decide which of the cultures you live-in, through the rest of your life, then I beg you to invest in understanding everything in their book, "Tribal Leadership" by Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright.

They didn't realize that the 5 culture-levels all hang on the 3 categories of game, I did, but with that key, it's even more important to be understanding this, as the US of A is now manufacturing a mass-enforced-conversion of people down to culture-level-2 & culture-level-1 ( homeless oft becomes culture-level-1 within 3 months, and I say that having experienced years of it: it DESTROYS you, inside ).

Immunize your life against that particular erosion-of-your-life, now, while you've still got good leverage, because they're working to enforce that we lose all our leverage, ASAP..

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EDIT: to make it explicit, what I'm saying..

IF you don't understand which of the 3 categories-of-Game a player is playing, THEN you aren't competent in understanding what their strategy is!!

ONCE you understand that the accelerationists, & the far-right, are not playing for long-rule, they are playing for power-while-destroying-everyone-else's-life, THEN you can understand what is, vs what isn't, Strategy, from their perspective, see?

Should have made that obvious, instead of only implying it, as it was sufficiently-obvious in my head, but .. you aren't me, & be happy about that, too.

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