Just lost The Game

[kodalai]

You know, I'd forgotten about FATAL until today. And then I realized something.

FATAL is The Game.

By which I mean: You can only win it by forgetting it ever was. As soon as you remember it exists, you've lost.

Comments

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

...thanks ever so much for bringing thus to my attention :DD

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

... If I understamd that Wiki article rightly, then I too have lots The Game -- and I didn't even know I was playing!

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

That's how it works. I guarantee that now you'll notice when you lose more often. :Db

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

OH GODDAMMIT MIKKE. I WAS WINNING FOR A FEW MONTHS AGAIN.

Now I have to announce I lost. x.x

[driftingdoll.livejournal.com]

And here I was doing so well! Now I've lost :P

This is Zan, by the way ;) New journal.

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for helping me lose The Game AND the Forgetting About Fatal Game.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Oh great. Now I just lost too.

I bring salvation

[alphasean.livejournal.com]

http://xkcd.com/391/

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

See, this is where Orwell's Doublethink comes in handy. At one and the same time, I think and do not think about the Game; therefore I have not lost it, and yet I also have the satisfaction of knowing I have not lost it. Mostly Doublethink is used for the most devious of political purposes, whereby I say aloud things that amount to nasty smears of some candidate, yet maintain my innocent frame of mind in not having intended anything untoward; so it is nice to know that it can be used in the Pursuit of the Good, as in this otherwise insoluble paradox.