johnf
21st October 2011, 23:04
From Charlies Angels, seas 1 , epi 5
"The king is surrounded by rooks knights pawns, much like a powerful man. Now the rooks are for protection, the knights take the fall,but it is the pawns you need to look out for. They know all the kings dirty little secrets."
The pawns can more easily escape the notice of a watchfull king, the pawns have less to lose and more to gain from betraying thier king.
the pawns are often farther away from the king and harder to stab in the back like those closer to him that have more power.
This analogy shows me the power of the little guy on the internet, the whistleblower, and the one percent.
The rare rook, Bishop and knight who secretly can no longer support the king needs many pawns to back him up if he decides to deviate one iota from the kings plans.
Once this one has the help of the many pawns, he can turn another inner circle piece and another until the power of the inner cirle is upset, and the court may gently turn to the king and say, time to step down, you no longer serve us.
Until the day another member of this inner circle becomes king or even more powerful than one of the pawns, there is freedom and peace.
I am not a chess player, but this little analogy seems to present a good foundation for strategies that could help groups spread unity across the planet.
When i went on my non sequitur with it I recalled a story someone told me about a video describing the peaceful ouster of a somalian (I think) dictator. What happened was an almost unspoken consensus amongst the military guarding the dictator that he had gone too far and it was time to turn the guns on him on behalf of the people , and that was the end of his rule. At the time I heard about this it was on vhs and I'm not sure if it is on you tube or not but I would like to see it for myself one day.
Also I would like to see any experienced chess players amongst us give us more ideas how this analogy might become helpful. I am sure something like it has been written in varois texts about power over the centuries, so any readers of "The book of five rings" and similar works would probably have interesting input.
The main thing is that this kind of social change is not about concentrating power ,but more like dissolving it into something more cooperative.
So what do others think?
"The king is surrounded by rooks knights pawns, much like a powerful man. Now the rooks are for protection, the knights take the fall,but it is the pawns you need to look out for. They know all the kings dirty little secrets."
The pawns can more easily escape the notice of a watchfull king, the pawns have less to lose and more to gain from betraying thier king.
the pawns are often farther away from the king and harder to stab in the back like those closer to him that have more power.
This analogy shows me the power of the little guy on the internet, the whistleblower, and the one percent.
The rare rook, Bishop and knight who secretly can no longer support the king needs many pawns to back him up if he decides to deviate one iota from the kings plans.
Once this one has the help of the many pawns, he can turn another inner circle piece and another until the power of the inner cirle is upset, and the court may gently turn to the king and say, time to step down, you no longer serve us.
Until the day another member of this inner circle becomes king or even more powerful than one of the pawns, there is freedom and peace.
I am not a chess player, but this little analogy seems to present a good foundation for strategies that could help groups spread unity across the planet.
When i went on my non sequitur with it I recalled a story someone told me about a video describing the peaceful ouster of a somalian (I think) dictator. What happened was an almost unspoken consensus amongst the military guarding the dictator that he had gone too far and it was time to turn the guns on him on behalf of the people , and that was the end of his rule. At the time I heard about this it was on vhs and I'm not sure if it is on you tube or not but I would like to see it for myself one day.
Also I would like to see any experienced chess players amongst us give us more ideas how this analogy might become helpful. I am sure something like it has been written in varois texts about power over the centuries, so any readers of "The book of five rings" and similar works would probably have interesting input.
The main thing is that this kind of social change is not about concentrating power ,but more like dissolving it into something more cooperative.
So what do others think?