How to Win a Game of War

By Joshua Clayton

I know the title, "how to win a game of war" is supposed to be about the card game. But knowing me, I would like to tackle something more serious. The best way to win a war is not to play or compete, but to genuinely create better than your "opponent". Japan, Taiwan and China lost to the United States in World Wars, and ultimately won by creation. Let us just bring that up to size there. To lose a competitive war is to ultimately win a creative war by patience, and conquering yourself, really. What do you think the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu meant by "The way (the Tao) is the ultimate creativity (Teh Ching)" and Confucious or Kung Fu Tzu meant by his total philosophy ultimately. Read Asian or Oriental philosophy sometime, creativity over competition is all through it.
Winning by surrendering and then finding creative ways to take dominion is the ultimate power, not killing, plundering and looting in the moment, but slow, patient development of abilities and winnings.
We see this reality with philosophers like Emerson (genuine reliance on yourself at all levels, deep and shallow) and Hegel ("all is one" style dialectical materialism), and Jesus Christ (The one law is love), Thomas Aquinas (variance with reason and genuine natural law is evil), also Baruch Spinoza (What is, is). I do not agree with all that these philosophers say, but I do agree with what rationally created their staying power. The rational core realities of their philosophies. At the surface, all rational philosophers and religious thinkers seem to be different, but their core is ultimately the same, creativity to higher levels over and instead of the competition for "what is there". The core is very basic really. It is a realistic core that works with natural law like the large old oak tree grows according to natural law even if it takes a long time to work through those laws or grow around obstacles to its full fruition.
So, back to winning the game of war. Like the slow, realistic naturally creative nature and reality abiding turtle always wins over the fast, "thrilling", "cut the corners" rabbit in that fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare", so it is with genuine creativity over pure competition. Creativity will always win because it will find a way within natural laws of existence. Genuine competition will always lose because it quickly and "briskly" forces the issue of life and death to unnatural ends. Ultimately creativity wins over competition by virtue of the realistic workings of the law. Competition is purely a gambling game of war. One way or another creativity and creative thought always wins through using laws creatively instead of competing for what already is.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.

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