Have you ever felt frustrated with being forced to play a game you didn’t want to participate in? You know you have something important to do, but someone is for some reason convincing you that you have to play the game. You think to yourself; “playing Monopoly can’t possibly be more important than what I actually need to do”. You may sigh, be a little irritated and reluctantly accept, thinking you can do the important things later. However, later on when you are trying to pick up where you left out, you find that someone else is forcing you to play yet another game you don’t feel like playing. With other words, you never seem to get your things done.
The game of Chess translates pretty well to the global scene. Most of the players on the Chess Board don’t even know that the Game Creators, who remotely and secretly move the pieces, exist. They are above the game, and the players (us) believe that we are creating the game as we go along; that is if we even know we are part of the game. Just like in chess, we can translate the pieces to different functions, to make the analogy more visualized:
The King: This would be the Presidents, Kings, dictators, prime ministers of the different countries. Read the rest of this entry »
