Just For Fungible

Scott Adams is skilled at truistic humor. Unfortunately, Sunday's Dilbert strip exemplifies this. International politics is so nuanced as to most often defy the sophomoric analyses offered by the pixilated "experts" paraded through our living rooms by the not-so-news networks. International politics is like playing chess on a board with a hundred opponents. Analysis of the game is easier than actually playing the game. Don't miss the fact that the media moguls are players and are not interested in disseminating news that compromises their game. Don't miss that they desire us, as their consumers, to be their pawns.

With all this, it is easy to lose hope of being able to understand international politics. However, game play can be easily analyzed by simple principle. It helps to understand strategy, but if we know that no one has power that is not granted by God and we know that God has issued a simple set of moral commands to live by then we can have a working understanding of the game. More importantly, we can have a working relationship with the Game Master Himself. And that's not fungible.