Selective Amnesia

More jargon you can safely ignore

I see that I have fallen behind in my rather serious attempts at gaining entry into the infamous Cartel

A rude reminder yesterday, depending on how one looks at it, came from the Cartel boss himself, who put up my rather dated post on my apparently anarcho-capitalistic post in the old blog.

So here goes, my ideas and thought on capitalism, anarchism, Randism, and jargonism. Sane people can safely ignore it all.

As I have demonstrated very effectively, in all possible forums, that I hate governments, and that I hate a group, people assume, rightly or wrongly, that I also hate to work in a team. Probably, but that doesn’t stop me. This is for that one person who believes all Libertarians have issues with working for a group. No, they don’t.

Cool, now that we have safely got that away, listen up. More insane ramblings, and unconnected thought to flow. You can leave if you want to…

The kind of sports, and the kind of activities a person/set of people play, in my opinion, kind of determines their social leanings. The tribal Europeans were famous for their team games. Cricket, Hockey, football, Rugby, Hunting in a group. Stuff like these that once again display the European’s fetish for being clubbed and bonded to a social group. A servant of the tribe.

Except for Tennis, which was a game of the liberty loving French, most games that comes out of these Barbarians are team games. And subjects an individual’s talent to the betterment of the so called superior team/group.

Why? Why should I subject my skills and talents to aid a group.

Contrast that with games/activities on this side of the earth. Chess, which is the supreme individualist’s game. Snake and ladder, (Paramapadam), Or the game now popular on Nokia phones, Bantumi/Palanguzhi. Ludo. Wrestling, Kalaripayattu, Silambattam( The Tamil stick fight), Karate, Judo, on and so forth.
Games/activities that were highly individualistic, and did not subjugate a person and his skills to the growth of an indefinable whole.

On a related note, The kind of games people play is also a sign of the climate of the region. Colder climes need games that warm your blood, and make you sweat. Warmer, Indian climates need you to sit in a corner and use your brains more than your body.

If you are still reading this, (what! you are?) the point of the matter is, why would one want to trade in his skills, his effort, his brains, without adequate compensation (economically, physically, psychologically, socially) to a “team/tribe”?

That, folks, escapes me!