23.1.09
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Power plays
LET'S begin this post with a parable.
Lets say in ancient Rome, there was a race to the death involving 4 parties, A to D—whoever wins gets his life spared. Lets say that A's capability in racing was the best, but the emperor was wary of him since he was somewhat a hero amongst the people. B was the emperor's favourite, although he was mediocre at best in racing. The rest were nobodies—just fillers. Naturally, the bets were placed mostly on A and B.
Soon, the horn to start the race was blown. As the race proceeded, A turned out to be first and B was second. Nobody cared to take note whether C or D finished last. The emperor accused A for cheating and disqualified him. Hearing this, the people who bet on B rejoiced. But alas, the emperor announced C and D as the joint winners. And since the rules, according to the emperor, stated that only one could be left to alive—letting C or D live over the other would be unfair. So in the end, A-D were all executed. And since no racer lived in the end, nobody really won, so everyone who placed bets lost their money.
WTF?
I guess these are games that people in power play. Just to show that they can do anything without any rhyme or reason other than because they can. To be able to do something that makes no sense at all to anyone, screwing half the people, and leaving the rest confused and perplexed. Something so obviously wrong that everyone can see, talk about, comment, complain and debate until the cows come home—but in the end nothing can be done to change it. And then proceed to take another weird shit. And rinse, and repeat.
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