The Games People Play.

This painting captivated me earlier this year as it reminded me of my times in Beijing when this was many a street scene. The Artist captures perfectly those Chinese expressions and their faces of intent around a game board. Their clothing sort of naff Communist garb or straight out of a North Face closing down sale. The title of the painting is the title of this blog ‘ The Games People Play ‘

My mind wandered into the business cities around the world where people play their daily mind games toying with each other as they plot their devious schemes for success. Lawyers playing mind games by the hour trying to outwit their opponents and their clients, hoodwinking with their complex roll of their daily dice.

I thought of those in relationships that often delicately navigate their ways to the rooms of peace and plateaus of placate. Those that walk Berkeley Square and Madison Avenue wielding their emotional designs to sell more of more, ad men and women slamming us all with slogan selling, mind games to monetise. I thought of Governments who sell the people that all they do is for the good of the people and in their best interests. Mind games for the masses as we watch from afar, made innocuous through our exhausted apathy.

Why oh why are these games played out in so many walks of life. What is it about humanity that fails to deliver a straight deck, yet hides behind the mask of respectability, sharks in sheep clothing. Our very established Institutions now tarnished by PC and woke preoccupation that gradually wears away honest commentary. The Games People Play are stifling truth. Social Media is our greatest threat as we can edit what we look like and what we really are. People pretending to be what they really are not with dating sites and meeting spots lying of the real you.

Snakes and Ladders slipping and climbing, Monopoly streets coloured by every culture by those that come affording by the games that they have all played elsewhere on our globe. In all games there are winners and losers of course. Some lose more than others, the 2 billion people on the planet that live on less than one dollar a day, or the 40% of working families in the UK who live on the bread lines, perpetually indebted peoples wearing long term mortgages around their neck for a roof over it.

With 10% of world populous enjoying 90% of the world riches the games that people play are wrecking havoc which is unsustainable in the long term, the game of course does end, the final whistle set to blow.