In Popular Culture
Since then I have received innumerable emails from people detailing
personal and family experiences of this Great Game, as well as many emails
pointing out how The Great Game is highlighted in some modern movies such as
the first movie in “The Matrix” trilogy and “V for Vendetta.” However, by far
the most important of these is a brave offering from writer/producer Guy
Ritchie called “Revolver” In this movie he openly highlights the treasured
formula for the control and manipulation of others as individuals or groups
that has been studied and written about by every statesman from Cesar through
Machiavelli to SunTsu.
It is vital at this time and at this point in our history that we begin
to understand the rules of this Great Game, how it affects us as individuals,
what we are being manipulated for and how we can defend ourselves from it. We
can no longer ignore what is happening around us to postpone taking action.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage
of your opponent. Miccolo Machiavelli – 1502
The Great Game, so named by Rudyard Kipling in his book “Kim,” follows
simple rules and a formula that has proven effective over millennia.
A Formula
This formula is still being used today in an open con by most
governments. Most governments seek to gain more advantage and control of their
people by applying this formula.
The objective of the game is to have totally controlled
populations by the year 2012, which means no individual is to have control over
the decisions relating to their own life. Governments are using this formula to
facilitate total control into reality. Instead of helping the people they
govern, they become their opponents.
The formula is subtle yet blatant in effect. The huge scale on which it
is played stops most people from seeing it because they can’t believe it can be
that big. Yet, the vast majority of people follow this formula blindly, playing
their role of victim perfectly. Like sheep, without question the majority of
the population continue to give over more and more control to their opponents.
The trick to the formula is that in the end the victims are
responsible for buying into and playing the game on themselves. The success of
the trap relies on the self-serving part of human nature that asks: “What’s in
this for me?” This grasping side of human nature takes a bait or a pay-off and
doesn’t realise the consequences until it is too late. Many find it hard to
believe that the formula to controlling the world can be that simple, but it
is!
Still those that wish to buy out of the game can turn the tables. To do
this you must be able to clearly identify the game. Those who learn the rules
can see the areas in their life that are affected by The Great Game, and then
they can say “No” to it. It is not necessary to play the counter game, even
though individuals are often more effective at this than large controlling
organizations, because individuals have more freedom to move. The simplest way
out of the game is to not take the payoffs or bribes and to vocally let our
governments know that we will no longer swallow the bait.
A Monkey Trap
The formula is essentially a monkey trap for humans. A monkey trap is a
simple device made from a whole hollow coconut tied to a log. A small hole is
drilled into the side of the shell, small enough for a monkey to slip its hand
in and grasp a bait placed inside. However, when the monkey makes a fist around
its bait, it cannot withdraw its hand through the small hole. The greedy
stubborn monkey will refuse to let go of the bait, which allows the trapper to
walk right up to it and catch it in a sack.
For humans the bait is not a lolly in a coconut. It is offers of money,
prestige or security by governments that keep us hanging on so tightly. Like
the monkeys, all we have to do to be free is let go of our attachment to these
things.
The monkey trap is a simplified illustration yet this formula can be
applied to many situations; this is because “the formula has infinite depth
in its efficacy and application”(Guy Ritchie 2002) and can be played
by anyone, not just large controlling organizations. More importantly anyone
can refuse to play it. Refusing
to participate in the game gives you back your power and freedom. You can’t refuse to play the game if you refuse
to accept that there is one. The first counter trick to keeping control over
your own life is to be aware that there is a game afoot and that you are a
part, an integral part of it.
Rules to the Game
These are rules that apply to any game. Firstly, in every game and con
there is always an opponent and there is always a victim. Which are you going
to choose to be? It is a choice, and you must choose to be either one or the
other. If you are currently playing the victim role, you must choose to be an
opponent instead. Secondly, do not be intimidated because you think that your
opponent is bigger or has more experience at the game. Each time they play they
are giving you a chance to learn it from them. Each time they attempt to play
it with you, you can get better. Each move they make allows you to see the
game, the playing field and the objective more easily. If you can see it
clearly you can avoid it.
Rule number 1:
You can only get better by playing a smarter opponent. Never underestimate any opponent. Government
appears to be banal, yet look how much control over your life you have
willingly given up to them. They are smart but with sufficient study and
practise you will win.
“The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.” – The Fundamentals of Chess - 1883
The art in the game is for the opponent to feed things to the victim and
to make the victim think that they want them. As with chess, the opponent will
offer pieces to be taken, to lead the victim into a trap. When the victim takes
the things being offered, the victim feels they acquired them because they are
smarter and the opponent is dumber. Caution. This is fiction. Don’t buy into
this fantasy giving an illusion of control.
Rule number 2:
The more control that a victim thinks he has, the less he has. If the victim continues on this course of
feeding the feeling of being clever, he will hang himself. All the opponent has
to do is just help him along.
Rule number 3:
The more sophisticated the game the more sophisticated the opponent. If the opponent is very good they will place
their victim in an environment that they can control. The bigger the
environment, the easier it is to control. Governments attempt to construct the
biggest possible environments for their games. Then they start manufacturing
additional rules for their constructed environments. Eventually the victim will
start playing the game by the rules that he is told to play by and he will be
controlled by those rules. A victim asks what the rules are rather than
thinking for themselves.
Rule number 4:
All the opponent has to do to achieve this is to distract their
victim by getting them consumed by their own consumption. A good opponent will toss the dog a bone, find
their weakness and give them just a little of what they think they want. The
excited and hungry victims greedily pursue this small reward and voluntarily
fall into a much larger hole.
An Australian Game
We had these aspects of the game highlighted for us recently in
Australia with the application of a gift by the government of a $940 stimulus
package handed out to 7.6 million Australian taxpayers.
The idea of the stimulus package originated with actor Russel Crowe. On
an American chat show he joked that if our governments gave each person
$1,000,000 the economic downturn would be over. Overnight our government was
quick to implement a form of this idea; in fact most western governments around
the world did so.
Many people, thinking the government was stupid, were keen to put their
hand out and accept the offer of free money. Yet this gift has not proven to be
free. In one fowl swoop, it has enslaved many nations.
The Australian population is now being told that the stimulus package
has blown out and that we are indebted as a nation and must pay back a
staggering $42 billion that this stimulus package has cost the economy. At $42
billion, each of those 7.6 million people should have received a hand out
of $5,530 each. That is over five
times what was offered to us. Instead of those who received the hand out having
to pay it back, suddenly all Australians are now being told that they have to
pay increased and extreme taxes for the next twenty years to pay back something
that we didn’t need or want until a greedy desire was artificially created for
it in the media. Over 20 years with the interest being charged we will have
paid back approximately 100 times what was offered to each of us.
Ironically it is estimated that ¾ of this stimulus package to low-income
earners was spent on gambling. Gambling institutions have to hand 70% of their
revenue back to the government in tax. Which means a cool $5,250,000,000 went
straight back to where it came from. Why didn’t that figure come off our
national debit? Additionally, the package was only paid to those who had filed
their income tax for the year. Billions of dollars in unpaid back taxes were
also collected, yet this collection of additional revenue was not reflected in
the bottom line either. We are being tricked and conned and if it was a
business, the government would have had to answer to auditors long ago about
the mishandling of funds. Yet has there been any reaction to this? Why do we
shrug it off and accept that the government will do this to us? Do you realise
that we don’t have to. We can demand answers. If we demand answers there will
be a back-peddling, we will have had a win, it can be remedied. We just have to
step out of this collective victim consciousness that allows us to accept this
untenable situation.
This scenario has played out in all western economies. Has this
ludicrous situation caused a public outcry? Are people rioting in the streets
about this injustice? No. The world has moved a step closer to slavery without
demur. I ask you who has been conned and who really was the clever one. We
still have the opportunity to not let this one slide. Will we?
Governments should never get themselves involved in any aspect of
business. If this happens it is like servants dictating how the household will
be run. Left alone the economy would have recovered more quickly.
Why Do So Many People Buy Into This Game?
Rule number 5:
The bigger the trick and the older the trick the easier it is to
pull. Simply because the victims think it can’t be that old nor can it be that
big for that many people to have fallen for it.
Some of the oldest governmental confidence tricks are still being used
very effectively today. One of the oldest forms of population control across
vast empires was to misdirect the people away from important issues by using
their basic daily consumer needs, (which harks back to rule number four.)
Julius Cesar was said to have used Wine, Women and Song to very successfully control his empire. This
hedonistic tripartite motto has been a standard consumption distraction to
prevent uprising against the ruling classes for millennia in all parts of the
world: -
* Bengali/Hindi/Sanskrit - "Sur, Sura, Sundari" (music, wine
and woman)
* Czech - "Víno, ženy a zpěv" (wine, women and song)
* Danish - "Vin, kvinder og sang" (wine, women and song)
* Finnish - "Viini, laulu ja naiset" (wine, song, and women)
* German - "Wein, Weib und Gesang" (wine, woman and singing)
* Urdu - "Kabab, Sharab aur Shabab" (meat, wine and
women/beauty)
* Norwegian - "Piker, vin og sang" (women, wine and song)
* Polish - "Wino, kobiety i śpiew" (wine, women and song)
* Swedish - "Vin, kvinnor och sång" (wine, women and song)
* Spain - "Naipes, Mujeres y Vino, Mal Camino" (cards, women
and wine, bad ways)
* Common British “Rum, bum, and concertina"
The Italian saying throws drugs into the mix - "Bacco, tabacco e
Venere" (Bacchus, tobacco and Venus) highlighting the obsessive use of
consumable tobacco, the most addictive and destructive recreational drug in
popular culture. On the 26th of August 1977, punk rocker Ian Dury
showed us that this standard distraction of wine, women and song still applies
in our modern times with drugs, rather than alcohol now being the stupefier of
choice. His song “Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll" was adopted as an
anthem of a generation lost in the grip of The Great Game.
We don’t have to allow ourselves to be distracted away from the
important issues. We are giving up our power if we do.
The Turkish saying highlights another couple of time-honoured
distractions – “At, Avrat, Silah” (horse, woman, weapon) which these days are
cars, the ultimate consumable item, sex as always, and fighting. Over 90% of
our media is devoted to the idea of violent conflict in some form or another.
Fear of Violent Conflict
By this constant bombarding of us with images of violence, the media
promulgates a fear of conflict, used to control the public. We don’t have to be
afraid of manufactured fiction. This fictional fear has recently led to the
implementation of new anti-terrorism laws universally adopted by most western
nations. This new legislation has effectively removed our right to fair trial
and legal process as well as gagging our freedom of speech and our right to
draw attention to or criticise our own supposedly democratic governments. Are
we really going to accept that without saying anything?
Also, the very sad case of the massacre in Port Arthur, which led to
reforms on gun control, has been used as a tool to increase the victim
consciousness of the population. This crime and the resulting increased gun
control laws were duplicated within a short period of time in both the U.S. and
The U.K. Is this a case of the game being played on a vast scale strategically
in three western countries? Is this a manufactured problem that was given enough media to produce a
public reaction till these
three governments all came up with the same solution, being to make the public even more vulnerable
and more open to victimisation by taking away the rights of the individual to
defend themselves? These rights were established in the Magna Carta, and
grandfathered into the constitutions of these three countries to specifically
prevent victimisation by governments. Can we see The Great Game afoot here too?
To maintain our personal freedom we must be careful not to buy into any
manufactured ‘problem,’ ‘reaction,’ and ‘solution’ scenarios. They are another
form of bait.
Personal Investment
Rule number 6:
Get the victims to invest in their own demise.
“The first rule of business is ‘Protect Your Investment.’” – Etiquette Of The Banker
– 1775
The media, The Great Game’s ultimate weapon of control, convinces people
to invest huge amounts of themselves in these highly effective consumable
distractions, as can be witnessed in any westernised city on any Saturday
night.
People begin to believe that these distractions are what give life
meaning. They build their egos on what a great time they had last night, how
fantastic their cars or other material possessions are, the quality or quantity
of their sex life, how tough they are, how much they weigh, how well they are
dressed, how good they look, how much money they can make, how much of the
latest slow release technology they currently have, how popular they are on
Facebook, etc. People so easily believe that these ego driven pursuits are
their best friends because it makes them feel good. Why do people put so much
effort and time into feeling good about such things? The reality is they are
only feeding an artificially created need. This feeling is only ever temporary,
as next week there will be a new desire to feed, created by the media, to keep
the victim as a slave to The Great Game.
The personally empowering solution: - Be yourself. Find out whom you are
and what you really want to achieve and don’t invest financially nor
emotionally in every new gimmick. In fact try letting go of, or giving away
your investment in these things.
“I go around doing nothing else than persuading you, both young and
old, not to care about the body nor money more seriously than the soul… you
give your attention to acquiring as much as is possible… and reputation and
honour, but you do not care and think about truth and understanding and the
perfection of your soul.” – Socrates in Plato’s Apology 29
Why The Victim Defends The Opponent
Together these manufactured distractions are used as more than just bait
for the trap. They are used to get the victim to defend The Great Game itself.
People heavily invest in these things financially and emotionally. When this
occurs the trap is almost inescapable. Because the victim so willingly falls
into the opponent’s trap, you will often find victims defending their
opponents. If the opponent is questioned or challenged it means the victim’s
investment and thus his intelligence is questioned.
Then if a true ally challenges the opponent on the game and trap
constructed around these things used as bait, this calls into question the
victim’s investment and thus their intelligence. No one can accept that. Not
even to themselves. Because of this media created conditioning the victim will
find that their biggest opponent hides in the very last place that they would
ever look... Inside themselves.
The Greatest Enemy In the Great Game
Rule number 7:
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you will ever look. (Julius Caesar 75 B.C.) Make sure that you are not playing against yourself. Check your
emotional investments. Your ego can turn you into a victim and become your biggest
opponent.
If you have become a victim, the good news is that it is a simple matter
to begin to break the chains. The process begins by firstly, becoming aware of
the game. Victims have been lulled into a fantasy world created by the media
and their own ego. WAKE UP!
Secondly, the victim needs to start to question why they are doing and
feeling things. Question yourself and question everything. This will allow the
victim to become conscious and start making conscious choices. As Socrates
said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Thirdly, to conquer this final opponent the victim will have to
relinquish their ego. Our ego is the story that we tell ourselves about
ourselves. It is our ego that desires status. It is our ego that wants to take
the bait, it is our ego that gets offended when it is suggested that we let go
of our attachment to these things. Anything that challenges the victim’s
self-perceptions or their comfortable notions becomes the opponent. Thus it is
the victim’s own ego that defines all opponents. Relinquish the ego and the
victim relinquishes all opposition. The easiest way for the victim to
relinquish the ego is to do the things they most resist. The victim needs to
challenge their own perceptions especially their perceptions about themselves
if they wish to cease being a victim. This may cause a little head pain but
will create freedom and give the victim back their power by taking the lid off
their limitations.
“The wise man unlearns something every day” -
Loa Tzu – 600B.C.
“As for me, there is one thing of which I am certain: that all I know
is that I really know nothing.” - Socrates – 399 B.C.
The Great Game gives the victim’s ego an investment in limiting their
behaviour. Victims become the fleas in the jar that no longer jump higher than
the limiting lid. Victims do not consciously question why they resist some
things and why they mindlessly do others. Why do we resist some styles of dress
or topics of conversation and yet mindlessly do others like smoke, obsess about
food or weight or sex, compulsively watch TV or accept that anything the
government does to us is inevitable. Break these chains and victims begin to
get their freedom back.
Question authority. Question everything. - It is the responsibility
of all citizens to question their government and ask: Why? Socrates – 399 B.C.
Attempts to Re-establish The Opponent’s Control
Rule number 8:
The opponent will attempt to smother, humiliate, ridicule or destroy
any threat. There will be a
reaction when the victim stops playing the game. Most often the victim just
gets ignored. The opponent, in their arrogance, thinks that the victim can only
function within its artificially constructed environment. This is not true. It
was less than a hundred years ago that people did most things for themselves,
without the aid of bureaucracy and computers. Income tax has only been in
effect since 1906; this very controversial tax was seen as a necessary
temporary measure due to a fiscal crisis. Sound familiar? Yet we managed just
fine without it for all of that time. Some might say that we managed better
before its introduction.
However, the opponent will try to scare the victim into believing that
they need the opponent’s attention and their help or that the victim will lose
out on something… respect, status, money, prestige, or the ability to use ‘the
system’ (that the victim never needed to begin with, that only tries to enslave
the victim the more they try to take advantage of it) if the opponent ignores
the victim or closes them out. The reality is just the opposite. Yet, the ego
tells the victim that if they relinquish their investment in the constructs of
the opponent, they are worthless. But are they really?
If ignoring the victim doesn’t work then the next thing that the opponent
will try is humiliation or ridicule. Humiliation is the opponent’s last resort.
They only begin this line of attack if everything else has failed. Humiliation
and ridicule are forms of propaganda. Propaganda has been effectively used
since Roman times to undermine opposition to control, via publicly circulating
misinformation about the intended victim. This is the method most often used in
contemporary western propaganda machines to remove credibility and not let
victims be taken seriously. Whenever there is any attempted public humiliation
and ridicule being generated, look for what the opponent is trying to smother.
Looking at whom the media attempts to publicly humiliate will allow you to see
who has bought out of The Great Game. Refusing to feel any humiliation or
embarrassment is the victim’s best defence against this form of propaganda. The
opponent will then not be sure how to proceed and the victim cannot be
victimised.
Attempting to destroy an enemy is generally not used very often these
days, it creates bad public sentiment as it makes everyone feel unsafe and
martyrs are the last things any opponent needs. If victims have removed
themselves from the game it is wise to maintain freedom of movement. Don’t dig
your heels in. Someone who is still in victim consciousness should be prepared
to remove themself from harms way just in case the opponent attempts to
escalate to violence. A change of location has proven to be the best defence
against this line of attack.
Preventing conflict, by not digging in and holding your ground, but
by giving way or not being where your opponent expects you to be, is the
highest form of martial arts. – SunTzu – 680 B.C.
Winning the Game, One Mind At A Time
However, if the individual is to retain their individual power, there is
an urgent need for those who are awake and aware to the tricks, cons and the
rules of The Great Game, to make others aware of it. This game will be won and
the opponent defeated by simply waking up one mind at a time.
“You will not easily find another such person as me, attached on the
city by the gods, like a gadfly on a large and well-bred horse, that by its
size and laziness is needing arousing …and persuading and reproaching… Then
like the sleeping who are awakened, striking at me… that the rest of your lives
you might continue sleeping…Wake Up! …You may not easily find another person
who will try and wake you....”.
Socrates in
Plato’s Apology -399 B.C.
© Copyright Rev. Dr. S. D'Montford, Monday, April 26, 2010 Gold
Coast, Australia. - Word Count 4261
Footnote: -
“Revolver” is Guy Ritchie's tour de force. Every filmmaker was meant to make
one film and he was meant to make this one... Excellent! I highly recommend
that everyone see it at least 3 times. It will take a little for you to fully
grok it. It is an indictment of our society that more people don't understand
what he has created with this piece of popular culture. For those who don't,
the message is simple : -
1) Stop
tricking and lying to yourself.
2) Take
personal responsibility and thus
3) Avoid
Armageddon.
This is
the message that ALL spiritual teachers like me have been trying to get through
to everyone for millennia.
Congratulations
on a job well done Mr. Ritchie!
