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Poetry || SubmissionsPROVOCATION – A COMPUTER GAMEOr maybe the name should be ‘it all started when he hit me back.’ I mean how do you decide if an act is an accident, an innocent mistake, or a deliberate flaunting of some unwritten agreement, a social contract. It is only the result – the murdered soldier, the child shot in the head, the rabbi bled to death – that makes you think of it. What were you Doing hiking out there off the approved roads with armed soldiers as chaperones when the people of this town fear attack? And you, why did you take your child to throw stones when there were real bullets flying in the air? Don’t you people know enough to run for cover? Ah you had a right to be where you were, to go where your gods have gone, a duty to protect your land, your state, your way of life! Fine. Let’s do it where it is safe. Let’s play ‘provocation’ in cyberspace. Here are some of the rules – the stronger the reaction you provoke with the more of your own who are killed the higher your score. Of course that is only the general idea. The rules are more complex – age (at both extremes) and gender count too. Ancient ladies and little girls are premium, and there are far more points for provoking reactions before a camera, or staging dramatic moments: empty ambulances careening through a street, orphaned families praying over a father’s fresh grave. I imagine this as the kind of game that could take an entire evening, a game whole families could play, an educational entertainment. At least, it would keep the people off the dangerous, dangerous streets Karen Alkalay-Gut gut22@post.tau.ac.il http://geocities.com/alkalay_gut/ Today's Situation
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