1433: What is the current ‘power’ play?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/09/07
First: It is not new.
Second: It is simple, directly.
Third: It is complex, derivatively.
Fourth: It is amplified with communications technologies.
Fifth: It is, therefore — To frame oneself as both the Hero and the Victim in the same story, as if the center of the world, wherever one travels until the end of one’s time.
Sixth: Hence, it is a zero-sum approach in game theoretic terms, with a twist, in which one is the perpetual loser, while everyone must lose with you.
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