PANIC!!! The Bad Guys are Winning!!! [Are they?]

Have been reading over some of the boards.
RMN/BringEmOn/Syzygy/GodlikeProd
Everyone seems to be in a panic today.
Looks like the bad guys are gonna pull it off.
Martial law looms before us.
US Troops where they don't belong.
And lies abound.

So when it gets like this I try to pull back and look at the screen.
Film screen, that is.
"WarGames."
Great flick!
Go rent it today!

So in this film, some computer whiz named David Lightman
breaks into a military computer named JOSHUA
and screws everything up so that WWIII appears to be imminent.
Missile silos are poised to go off all over the world.
Eventually, he gets into the main control room.
To fix things, Lightman suggests they play a game...
Global Thermonuclear War.
The scenerio is set up. Off they go.
The computer goes wild trying to figure out which combination of
attacks will result in him/it WINNING.
After all, winning is the name of the game.
The primary objective.

So is it real or game?...all this activity???
One of my favorite lines is when someones says,
"Look at the screen? Does it make sense?"
The 'realities' are mixed.
So the kid decides that the best way to TEACH this computer
the futility of it's endeavors
[i.e., the world and JOSHUA will be destroyed if it continues],
they distract JOSHUA with a game of Tic-Tac-Toe
Now everyone knows that tic-tac-toe is a boring game
that always ends in a tie.
So JOSHUA starts working on this puzzle.
Trying to win a winless game.

"Come on. LEARN, goddammit!" [Lightman to JOSHUA]

In the nick of time, JOSHUA figures out that there are some games that cannont be won.
He opts out of Global Thermonuclear War for a nice game of chess.
The computer concludes , "The only way to win, is not to play."

So this is what I say to myself when things get nasty out there.
Look at the screen.
Does it make sense?
There is an illusory aspect to everything.
If we are ONE with all things, and I believe we are,
are we that keen on destroying ourselves???
I have to shake my head.
I have to listen to JOSHUA.
The only way to win is not to play the game.

I think that is what Krishnamurti means [see yesterday's post].
"Don't feed it. Don't give it energy."
Get out of the fray, not as an escape, but as a forward and positive action.
Allow it to be without taking it in.
Let it work itself out or destroy itself as the case may be.
Contribute clarity, and fearlessness [not defiance], and calm.
But get free of the drama of it all.
BE a non-participating participant.
And be free!

[These ideas are still gelling in me. Will keep you posted.]

MORE MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM "WARGAMES"