Wargame boards, from chess to hexagons

August 9th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — who can’t even reach the 7 monute mark in a Stallone movie without seeing a DoubleQuote ]

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Wargame boards, from chess to hexagons — when the map becomes the territory:

SPEC DQ hexagons

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Contemplating..

  • Korzybski: the map is not the territory

  • Lao Tzu: the path that can be mapped is not the pathless path

    • and that second translation is one to set beside my other loose versions after Lao Tzu:

  • The pronounceable name isn’t the unpronounceable name.

  • The flow that can be capped isn’t the overflowing flow.

  • The quantity that can be counted is not the unaccountable quality.

  • The verbal formulation of x is not the x itself.

  • No way the way can be put into words.

  • The problem that can be described isn’t our actual situation.

  • More I grasp you, baby, more you disappear…

    • — which i posted here at Zenpundit in one of the posts that has sadly disappearedc, but which can be found — together with some interesting other commentary — on our emergency site, Zenpunditry.

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    At times, the map becxomes the territory, the gameboard becomes the world.

    The upper image in the DoubleQuote above is a teling detail from Maurits Escher‘s great work, Metamorphosis II. The lower image is a screencap of one of the opening shots from The Expendables 3.

    The things I do for science!

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