The game called Life

"The game plants you in front of a stranger and says: Love him, kill him, humiliate him. And you obey without asking yourself whether it is right. An hour later you will be loved or killed or humiliated in your turn. At bottom we know all this, but we play the game as if it were for fun." (Elie Wiesel, Gates of the Forest)

Is is a dismal view of life, but achingly accurate. I do try to opt out of the Game, but I am ever drawn into it. I am in the midst of some existential angst about man as a political animal. I doubt it will last long.