What the Prisoner’s Dilemma reveals about life, the universe, and everything


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“Okay, so now you’ve got this alternating thing, which will remind you of some of the politics of the world today, where we have to do something to you because of what you did to us.”

Steven Strogatz

With thanks to @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca.

Frohe Weihnachten, Steffi!

Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today

“None of this is to defend Putin’s brutality. When 55 Ukrainian children are made refugees every minute and pregnant women in hospital are shelled mid-labour, there is nothing to defend. But to frame our condemnations as a binary clash of rival value systems is to absolve ourselves of our own alleged war crimes, committed as recently as this century in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is to pretend ‘our’ wars are just and only theirs are evil, to make out that Afghan boys seeking asylum from the Taliban are inevitably liars and cheats while Ukrainian kids fleeing Russian bombs are genuine refugees. It is a giant and morally repugnant lie and yet elements of it already taint our front pages and rolling-news coverage.” Aditya Chakrabortty explains why, in the search for solutions, Western values should be regarded as a problem.

www.theguardian.com

Sebastian Junger remembers Tim Hetherington

“You and I were always talking about risk because she was the beautiful woman we were both in love with, right? The one who made us feel the most special, the most alive? We were always trying to have one more dance with her without paying the price.” Sebastian Junger writes after the death of photojournalist Tim Hetherington in April 2011.

www.vanityfair.com

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