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The Prisoners Dilemma Fallacy


The prisoners dilemma paradox like all paradoxes and all game theory, is a fallacy - an intellectual theory which helps people escape from own complicity in the worlds problems. The intellect is used mostly in the world to find high sounding concepts which help the people, to escape. And hardly ever to find, the Good News. This is the primary work of the academies. 

The prisoners dilemma implies that everyone has to change at the same time to save the world, which everyone believes is impossible. So why bother. Or, arrogantly, people are not smart enough to make the right choice.

So how did we get to this society of systemic selfishness and ignorance?

Was the world always selfish and ignorant? Or was it once selfless and virtuous?

If the latter did we gradually start getting more and more selfish and ignorant over time and end up where we are today in a permanent state of selfishness and ignorance? Or aeons ago did we flip suddenly overnight from selflessness to selfishness?

Whichever is the case, unless this is always how humans have been, if once upon a time we set out on a journey toward selfishness and ignorance, then we can go back to the good - we can return, for sure. It can absolutely be done.

It's just a matter of doing it quickly and cheaply overnight. Or making it a long and painstaking trudge with billions of excess deaths and for those who survive long lives, lives full of suffering. But should we make the trudge a never ending path from the fork?

Which way shall we go at The Fork? Its a choice. A free choice. No one can project the results of 'my' choice onto wealth and power or our descendants and be taken seriously once this fallacy has been observed for what it really is. 

The prisoners dilemma paradox like all paradoxes and all game theory, is a fallacy - an intellectual theory which helps people escape from own complicity in the worlds problems. The intellect is used mostly in the world to find high sounding concepts which help the people, to escape. And hardly ever to find, the Good News. This is the primary work of the academies. 
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