Poem: Analysis of the Game of Risk?

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Poem: Analysis of the Game of Risk?

jjbreunig3
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since 2009-07-29

Posts 423
Maine, USA

0 posted 2014-08-14 09:23 AM

Are there real lessons to be learned,
from playing the board Game of Risk?
Is it just a fun, leisurely past time
with gameplay that can be fairly brisk?

Its premise promotes outright conflict,
albeit on a miniature scale and timetable.
With some posturing and open discussions,
attacks proceed without mortality tables.

Between uneasy alliances (based on lies)
and few verbal, unenforceable treaties,
what attitudes are honed while players
develop their world-domination strategies?

Using the armies of lifeless soldiers
to sate personal needs of global conquest,
wannabe dictators wave ideas of war-policy
with banners hiding a pseudo blood-lust.

From war campaigns with rules of engagement
that follow a predetermined, orderly sequence,
are societies secretly pushing warmongering
with unknown and unforeseen consequences?

Covert operations are not possible or deployed,
as military movements are clearly seen by all;
when acquiring territories around the World,
can a bad cause spread before an uncertain fall?

Does odds calculation for incremental success
as combatants tumble the dice of aggression,
dissuade future, role-playing battlers to not
kill others in favor of peaceful solutions?

Are we actually teaching our future generations
that war will be a permanent, acceptable ideal?
Can the human condition continue moving forward…
while the concept of peace may be sadly repealed?

Logic, when applied to people, fails miserably! --Joseph J. Breunig 3rd

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2014-08-14 01:41 PM

I don't know the answers to the questions you pose... but I do know I enjoyed the poem! And oh... the memories you did evoke! LOL

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

2 posted 2014-08-17 01:29 PM

I think the reason Risk is such a popular board game to begin with is that it draws on the innate aggressive ideals of humanity to begin with. The game isn't responsible for the ideals, the ideals are responsible for the game. Just my two cents.

Humanity sucks... glad I'm not one of ya.

Michael

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