Anatol Rapoport was a Russian scientist that lived in the RUSA and then in Canada where he died. His mind crossed many subjects of science, those being biology, psychology and mathematics. While he lived in Canada he became heavily involved in peace studies. In his time he developed strategy for what is known in political studies as game theory. He is a wonderful human that is not very well known.
I mention this man because today the people of Russia are in the process of voting for a new government. Now I have always enjoyed reading about Russia and the people. To me the governments that have controlled Russia are no better or worse than any other government in the world. What I feel is that the people of Russia have gone through some really terrible leadership, which brings us to the current people seeking power.
One method of measure for a great leader is how they develop others to take over. Succession planning has not been a strong point for the political leaders of Russia. It is difficult to trust the entire political system when the leader holds onto power so tightly. Do the vast majority of citizens in Russia trust the government? To be fair, I would say that a strong portion of Canadians do not trust our government either.
Plus we have to think of the opposition parties as well. They may be as untrusting because they are seeking to oust the current party. With that we have a situation where the trust in political debates is very low. Add to that the need to make the other party seem useless is a function of the entire election campaign. I think about all of the things that I know are going on and trust is a major component which is taking a beating. The level of intent to get the next shot in and cause pain is increasing. It is like implementing a cease fire agreement but yet the two sides still continue to fire away knowing that it is doing more harm. That is a situation in which my own mind and heart are truly confused as to the reason for causing more harm.
What does it do - really? Why cause more harm? Is it the lack of causational thought where the person that fires the shot, only sees the shot fired as being the death blow to everything? I guess that is it. There is no thought process beyond the shot being fired. There is no thought of impact or future return fire. The game of tracking "who has the most hits wins" is a bullshit game but I must agree that it is the most popular game played in politics.
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