<story><title>Plans you&apos;re not supposed to talk about</title><url>https://dynomight.net/plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjlawson</author><text>This reminds me of a set of poems, Knots, by R.D. Laing, the first of which goes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are playing a game&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are playing, at not playing a game&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a lovely collection, and though I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about it recently, I think there&amp;#x27;s a lot of value in considering these kinds of unspoken self&amp;#x2F;group contradictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JALTU</author><text>Thanks for sharing! Knots has lovely metre, which feels&amp;#x2F;sounds like the famous Bene Gesserit litany against fear.&lt;p&gt;I must not reveal the game &amp;#x2F;
Revelation makes me the rule breaker &amp;#x2F;
Revelation means alienation that brings total ostracization</text></comment>
<story><title>Plans you&apos;re not supposed to talk about</title><url>https://dynomight.net/plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjlawson</author><text>This reminds me of a set of poems, Knots, by R.D. Laing, the first of which goes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are playing a game&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are playing, at not playing a game&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a lovely collection, and though I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about it recently, I think there&amp;#x27;s a lot of value in considering these kinds of unspoken self&amp;#x2F;group contradictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakshaving_jgt</author><text>I lost the game.</text></comment>