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Of course, to use finite tactics in what could be a collaborative environment betrays a lack of perspective, a failure of imagination, and an obsession with what has gone before at the expense of what might yet be. So it should be no wonder that '' that’s what most people do most of the time''. | Of course, to use finite tactics in what could be a collaborative environment betrays a lack of perspective, a failure of imagination, and an obsession with what has gone before at the expense of what might yet be. So it should be no wonder that '' that’s what most people do most of the time''. | ||
[[Interminable games]] are ''destructive'' where infinite ones are ''constructive''. Instead of seeking to imagine new worlds and open up undreamt-of possibilities, in an [[interminable game]], each side seeks to shut the other one’s existing world down. These games are mainly harmless — just [[tiresome]], and pointless — because neither side will persuade each other of anything, much less ''win''. | |||
Does God exist? Is Socialism good? Is Capitalism bad? Are permissionless [[blockchain]]s the future? Will string theory explain life, the universe and everything? Whither [[critical theory|social justice]]? Is [[Brexit]] a success? These are interminable games. | |||
Like ''finite'' games, they appear to be contests “to the death”. Yet, like ''infinite'' games, they ''must not be finally resolved''. The goal is, always, to ''avoid'' final victory and carry on the fight because ,if you win, you must pack up your banners, disband your army and go home. And who, having assembled a power structure, does that? | |||
Thus, should outright victory impend, putative victors will scramble to change their own terms of reference to ensure they still have something else to fight about. | |||
This can work because, the rules of engagement are not fixed, or even agreed: each side is playing to its own rules, with total disregard for the other’s, and will change its premises should it appear to be on the brink of victory or defeat. | |||
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