Chandramohan S.
An open letter to a Game theorist
Just before the commencement of
a lecture
of yours, I remember someone muttering
“Mr.Game theorist is one of the
few who can
still save the world”.
After all your accolades and endowment
chairs,
best paper awards and crammed lecture
halls,
and divine refinements of
equilibria
coming to a naught as if in black
hole
where no light of reason can escape
unhurt.
Has it occurred to you that
war
can be
an unstable equiliria
can be
an addiction
and that addiction can be rationalized?
Theories of war and peace
go for a toss
like random intervals of time between
the bombs in Gaza.
Have you ever denigrated your axioms
of peace
And
deified the contradictions of war
On which whose imprecision proofs
on
hope for Justice depends?
Your miraculous insights into rational
behavior
have all gone to sleep.
So
Tell us dear sir,
before you go to sleep
have you quit your search for that
perennially elusive
stable equilibrium of cease fire
along with your study of evolution
of conventions?
Chandramohan S. (CMS) is a poet from India.
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