strange bedfellows of ideas, that old cliche. Blindness, that other....

[Ian Livingston]

Well, as a non-Christian, I don't mind challenging the assertion that "The
Jesus strategy failed as a survival mechanism." I'm not sure the strategy
you refer to, but it's my impression that the ``love thy neighbor as
thyself" strategy has never been tried much. Got to be able to love thyself
before it can be. Meanwhile, war, drought, famine, distraction, disaster,
greed, fear of death, etc. stand as the alternative survival strategy. Also
not working so well.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 8:07 AM Darah Kehnemuyi via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

>  That must have been interesting.  The Neo-Nazi insults the PeaceActivist.
> Peace Activist smiles and offers to shake hands.  Neo-Nazi punches Peace
> Activist in the face ??Game Theory: Robert Axelrod's millions of computer
> iterations of the basic Prisoner's Dilemma with different game strategies
> proposed by many, many players.  The Jesus strategy failed as a survival
> mechanism.  Most successful strategy for continued survival was
> tit-for-tat.   Many experienced people say this is in fact the normal
> strategy used for international relations and conflict.
>     On Friday, April 1, 2022, 10:57:48 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <
> mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1509666122664230913?s=20&t=uGe35LTZqGuTU0YPqOSPGw
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