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Watching Donald Trump’s recent meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the BBC (Black Broadcasting Corporation), I was impressed to see a banner headline rolling across the bottom of the screen: TRUMP MAKES DISCREDITED GENOCIDE CLAIM. (more…)
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Photo courtesy of Printerval
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One might say that the concept ‘game’ is a concept with blurred edges. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Blurred around the edges though the concept of a “game” might be, I believe it is safe to say that every serious player of every kind of game plays to win. Which brings me to an extremely popular game being played these days with payoffs for the winner in the form of power acquisition: the “game of virtuous victimhood.” (more…)