Would this help or hurt?
People get backstabbed all the time, and all we can do is live in mutual distrust. There are times when authoritative figures are the ones scamming the people in the lower echelons of whichever governmental structure the authoritative figure is in.
The scam does not equate to backstabbing. It's just pulling wool over the weak-minded's eyes. The backstabbing comes at the normal people. The figure chooses a random person, preferably someone he knows more about, or has access to his secrets(account), so that the random person(let's call him X) can be easily manipulated.
So if X were to give the figure access to his life, the figure would have the power to climb over X's head and shit on it.
Of course, this isn't something that a leader can spam. There are only so many people who would give out their passwords to an alliance leader. There must be a reason behind the backstabbing of a random civilian. It's like a latent disease if the leader were to have access to our intelligence. The trigger for the backstabbing could be when things are going wrong, like armies getting raped while the famed army officer has no idea what to do. What can he do to shift the blame from himself and carry on being a famed officer? Backstab someone of course. Throw all the blame to him, order people to attack him, say that he's a spy, annex him, stuff like that.
What can we do then, if all of us are unable to become authoritative figures? We can only protect ourselves and not be this trusting of leaders.
OK this sounds anti-government but what I'm actually referring to is alliance politics in Travian.
Doesn't sound that boring now I hope?
Through this, I learnt that there's a lot more to learn about people and why they do the things they do. It is interesting to see oneself become a victim of human nature, and it's interesting to see people try to defeat the bestial instincts within themselves.
Speaking of bestial instincts reminds me of sex. This is an excerpt from an erotic story:
I thought I knew what was going to happen but I wasn’t sure what to do about it. I liked her, really liked her, maybe more, but we had not even had a conversation yet. I wanted this but I also wanted more than this. Would this help or hurt?
http://stories.xnxx.com/story/15986/Hawaiian_Sunset
We always hear 'Begin with the end in mind'. What do people being in their minds with about the end when they are involved in a relationship? I'd say that most guys think of getting laid.
If there's a relationship, there must be a form of conclusion, something you want to achieve out of it. Let's not talk about abstract shit like 'love'. Let's talk about alliances. I seem to enjoy drawing parallels from Travian these days.
There's a huge alliance A, and there's a medium-sized alliance B. B could become a farm, or could aid in alliance A's quest of domination by being absorbed into A.
A could choose to destroy B completely and try to take in the best players of B, or build a cordial relationship with B, just in the hopes of B becoming stronger and eventually achieving the capacity to aid A in times of war.
To put it crudely, a relationship with B is equivalent to an investment.
Let's say there's an alliance C, which is damn small and useless. Alliance A would not bother with it at all because there's no potential for growth of C. There are no obvious benefits of building a relationship with C, so they simply don't bother with C and attack it from time to time.
From these we can see that people build a relationship with other people only when there's a possibility of reaping benefits.
And in Travian, benefits would mean protection in the form of defensive troops and resources to build up population/more troops.
What about in real life? We can see that every relationship is a form of investment already. I can socialize with a random guy who is quite smart and I might be able to get sexam tips from him. I can get to know a prostitute really well and bargain for a discount when I, uh, visit her to give her business. I can give freely to the poor, but that's for satisfaction of my own soul, to make me feel better about myself for being such a morally degraded person.
See? Only useful relationships are forged.
That brings us back to the point in a relationship, the boyfriend girlfriend kind. What is the end in mind that you have? Is it marriage? Kids? A one-night stand? A fling?
I think that the point in all such relationships is procreation. I don't know how can people be disgusted by what we're born to do, and what we were born by.
All I know is that I'd definitely have sex with my wife. If not there's no point in having a wife at all. I mean like you have a wife for a reason right?
So what was wrong with the notion that sex is a small but important part in a relationship? Weird people.
How can teenagers be disgusted by sex? I mean it's encouraged to not have it at this stage in life, but is there a need to be disgusted by it? For fuck's sake, you were born through the affinity of your parents and sexual intercourse. Unless you're a test-tube baby, but even then I'm quite sure your parents could have sex just because they want.
Gah. My blood boils.
And I don't know how to assure you that you're special.
-- 5/26/2009 12:42:00 AM
