The Game's The Thing.

So why doesn't the whole world rise up in furious rebellion against this system of checks and checks?
Why is it that so many people 'play the game'?

Well, the game is supposed to be binding to all sides, and therein lies the devil; the illusion is, that while the people at the top of the tree may think they rule, they not only subborn but are subborned by the other players.
And of course, once you learn the rules, and abide by them, there is every chance that you will prosper under the safety of the fear, the fear of living outside the rules.


By such means the arbitrariness of such rules grows to replace Law with Order, leading to a magical rose garden of obedient serfs.


But wait.

Who's that laughing?
Why, it's the Deadly Dulls.
Because the rules provide no real guarantee. And they know that rules were made to be broken.
They know it's only a game.

Which means that the game can be replaced by an outburst of naked violence at any time, at which the children may well go to the police, but not knowing how to do it, they are disappointed by the response.
Still, as long as they don't, enough of them will be left alone long enough to feel their false security blanket wrap around their minds again.

Don't believe me?
Look at Russia.
Look at the shootings, the poisonings, always of people who don't want to play the Russian version of the game, even in foreign countries.

Think of this next time somebody demands your disarmament.

The reason that I am poor is because I don't play. I wouldn't know how. It used to be a moral thing.
But when they won't let you feel, it just becomes a matter of staying alive. And eventually you learn that no game gives you that.