I remember playing a board game with a five year old... involving dice... more than likely it was Trouble... 4 different colors and a popper in the middle to roll the dice... and the thing about 5 year olds with any sort of game is... they always win... you can never beat them... the second I roll a number to put my little blue guy into the end, or put his little red guy back to the start, a new rule is discovered... unofficially... preceding... superceding... a combination of historocity and newspeak... to guarantee a win... and I don't even think it was him consciously cheating as much as I think it was his selection of disney movies programming him think it unimaginable that he could lose... he has to be the special one... the hero... and where Walt Disney couldn't write a fairie god-mother into his story he would write one for himself... because if not... if he fails... there is nothing else lovable... there is only the hated failure... the enemy... Scar... it's all he can do to ride the wave of rule-mediating invincibility through the terrible trifectic gauntlet of monopoly, mousetrap, and uno... for the win...
... We don't necessarily grow out of this mindset either... we all have an idea of how the world should work... it doesn't make us right but still when someone breaks them we get angry... and in turn we set rules for others... not always fair to both sides... we abuse power... and try to guarantee we'll always be on top... there's no point trying to argue the rules the way you see them if the other person is playing with a whole different set of rules... at best you can try to change their mind... most of the time you have to appeal to them according to their rules... but sometimes their rules haven't changed since they were 5, and their rules are unfair in every way, and you don't want to appeal to their rules or live under the nature of their laws... and it's not hard to pick these people out... they have a hard time keeping people around them... they're never, ever wrong... and it was always the other person's fault.
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