"Betters"

1. e4, e5

2.Qh5...

It's a daring risk most "good" chess players decline to take due to consequences which can perhaps a bit too easily tend toward desolate defeat, but surprisingly sweet victory can be the uncommonly exciting, even exhilarating reward as well. It all depends on player skill and bold initiative. Some people think it's a dirty move, and, calling a spade a "spade", it's known to them as the "terrorist opening", but "a rose is still a rose", and so on, according to Bill the Bard. Better known perhaps as the Patzer opening, many experts presently consider it too weak to withstand modern contest on the chessboard, and due to their influential recalcitrance, Qh5 may be one of the least explored and dimly understood of all openings in chess. As a result, more potential and possibilities might be hidden in Qh5 than any other known opening in the game of chess.

This kind of negative institutional influence discourages much, probably too much natural curiosity, among other things, keeping us relatively well-informed about ourselves and our environment. Most of us tend to trust our institutions, however, in spite of strict, meticulous regimentation of their “human resources”. In the long, long run, these ravenously inhuman and exorbitantly excessive monstrosities of failing “ambition” may accumulate vast material wealth, but, lacking the essential human integrity absolutely required for our ultimate success, we face overwhelming peril in having abandoned connections and contacts with past events which strengthened human being by linking people and community. These discontinuities sever our memories into mere shards of culture and tradition which become scattered chaotically as chaff carried away in the wind. Having chronically forgotten old lessons, we’ve condemned ourselves and our posterity to repeat past errors, over and over again, and our collective consciousness seems to psychopathically fail to learn as we make the same old methodical mistakes, yet seem to expect different results!

For example, persuading people to fear gods eventually leads to gods and priests being hated, ironically causing atheism and religious persecution. Fooling all the people only works some of the time, and has typically led to anarchy and rebellion throughout history. Profiting from unfair exchange causes people to be envied and despised by their economic and financial victims, so black markets emerge, rich hostages are ransomed and banks get robbed, for examples of how some desperately try to level the playing field. Misinforming or otherwise “pacifying” the general population can’t make the "masses" more manageable, or the proletariat compliant or obedient. It's all a matter of record. Maybe worst of all, placing higher education beyond the means of ordinary people won’t discourage their thinking and reflecting about fairness and equitable relations, or their plotting ways to vindicate themselves or seeking retribution for such spiteful deprivation and moral desolation as that demonstrated by their "superiors", or “betters”.

Indeed, some of us may be risking far too much when we gamble with other people’s desires, needs, fears, hopes, dreams, lives, and families among other things…