Greetings, Grim,
I like this model but think it is incomplete and wonder what you think about my version.
1: The chess analogy is power-oriented, describes actions, a black box model.
I use a white box model focusing on motivations and found a twisted version of the Indian caste system more useful with the Brahmins (monks), Kshatriyas (guardians), Vaishyas (organisers), Sudras (craftspeople), and the Dalits (untouchables). These represent the five ways that people can deal with their inevitable weakness and mortality; and dictates every decision they make. The model also shows how "modern society" flipped this system upside down, together with a possible (though quite improbable) solution.
2: There is no single person who can flip the table, this is not how it works.
There may be people who never accepted the motivations of this game, spent their lives outside of the struggle for money and power, seeking for real answers and better questions(!) They lost all their fights not because they were not ABLE to win but because they were NOBLE to take only what they needed and not what they could grab. They can and do tell everyone their way to play the game but get the response that "you have to understand". They do understand but they don't obey.
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.“Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?”But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said,“You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
Today the whole table is in free fall, no pawns and no kings can really control it, the game plays itself through them. Players either realise that and start looking for those outsiders or we die together.
The outsiders do no look for honour, they seek respect in its original meaning: "re-specto" = "examine it again". Don't reject because you think that's insane. It is just frightening because it is out of the world you knew.
Your move?
