ONE PAGE GAME
01 [a deconstruction of nuclear weapon past time]
i. The one page game deconstructs nuclear weapons.
ii. Deconstruction of nuclear weapons describes not a political
state or a state of historical objects mistakenly called “nuclear
weapons,” but primarily a positive mental state, perhaps the
most positive mental state ever known to human beings.
iii. The one page game is the leading edge of a theater of
nuclear weapons deconstruction. You may begin to act in
this theater by copying and distributing this game freely
everywhere.
iv. The designers of the One Page Game have earmarked
one rather odd reality-distorting aspect of the situation with
nuclear weapons – it is that nuclear weapons and everything
said about them by their controllers are essentially a theater.
Ironically, that it is why the various designers behind this game
(The Henderson Element) conclude that the only way to
affect the deadlock of nuclear weapons is by approaching
them theatrically, for theater is the nature of their existence.
v. From week to week when new releases of the one page
game are sent out, you may note changes in the content, order,
consistency of this document. That is because we have
established a mail group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kardtrick/ for your
comments and thoughts and your examination of this game;
for your ideas about it semantics; it’s meaning; to answer
questions; to gather your advice about changes in the OPG;
and generally to make the game better; to improve this game
(including perfecting its punctuation) and help it reach its goal
of the deconstruction of nuclear weapons.
vi. The chief fictional theme of this nuclear deconstructionist
theater is that dreaming and nuclear weapons are antipodes,
one cannot truly exist in the presence of the other. The chief
media of this game is a deck of ordinary cards—and a way of
playing cards that is intended to ignite dreaming forces
amongst human beings such as have not existed since
aboriginal culture ruled the earth in a perfect balance with
nature.
vii. To participate in this game (which may be seen as a past-
time engaged in--and enhancement of--any type of truly
liberating political work, you must learn the system below
named kardtrick. To learn this method of playing cards, go to
the website listed below, www.kardtrick.com.
viii. In this game we try to get away from the idea of the
Inevitable by positing a practice opposite the cynicism
regarding nuclear weapons and imagining something as simple
as a One Page Game that deconstructs nuclear weapons. We
also posit a linked entity called kardtrick, a card trick which
deconstructs nuclear weapons. We believe it is a perhaps a
mistake to always take nuclear weapons power seriously. We
should spend at least an equal amount of time making fun of
them! In this sense, we can ask--is this a threat that one
should bow to? What is one bowing to when one bows to
nuclear weapons? Is that an obeisance that we want to make?
Therefore we say in this game that deconstruction of nuclear
weapons is easy as a cardtrick.
ix. This cardtrick combines mnemonic techniques with a
unique vision of creative society in the presence of nuclear
Copyright April 2004, Terry Ross
For more information see
www.kardtrick.com
Release 1.
weapons, in which said weapons are the motivating force for
the development of a new problem-solving entity, just barely
visible in the following trick of the cards.
x. The game teaches sequentially a number of increasingly
forgotten arts. For one thing the game increasingly imbues
the user with a set of useful mnemonic locations within a
topical memory system. Each of these mnemonic locations is
given certain powers such as 52 techniques for empowered
dreaming, the very dreaming which is the opposite of nuclear
weapons. By bringing dreaming into existence, specifically
because nuclear weapons exist, we begin to deconstruct
nuclear weapons. Also, techniques of Other Earth (a parallel
earth universe which has survived nuclear weapons existence)
have been carved into the rooms of the Castalia mansion
herein built up. Finally, networking techniques are built into
the cards to connect mind to mind in the proper context of
the evolving problem-solving abilities created by this game.
xi. A few of these 52 ideas follow. For instance, there is the
idea of absurdity inherent in the Ace of Clubs, with its
keyword “Cat,” meshed into its idiomatic rhyme from Mother
Goose, Hey diddle diddle.” The idea here is to think of
nuclear weapons as the capping joke which comes as the end
to the human comedy. Thus, we learn to dream more strongly
utilizing the techniques of this card. But also we learn to see
nuclear weapons in a less serious way, and begin to realize that
nuclear weapons are inherently something we might take less
seriously. To be too serious about them is to put the mind
into a position of hopelessness tantamount to the destruction
of dreaming and consciousness; it is to enter the mentality,
and to be part of the mentality of, the holocaust maker. This
is not human.
xii. A second important keyword and a secondary keyword
for the two of diamonds, the word “declaration.” The idea of
a declaration of nuclear war is brought here – a statement of
realization that nuclear war is essentially already on. The
holocaust making process is long, and nearly finished, as
attested to by the bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. This is a
war, not with humans, but with the weapons themselves.
Realizing this is to create the state of Orientation, which
makes winning nuclear war (deconstruction of nuclear
weapons) creatively possible for the first time.
xiii. CRITICIZE THIS ONE PAGE GAME by numbered
paragraph at this yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kardtrick/. For more
current versions of the OPG visit the website listed below.
xiv. Thank you for your help in this matter. Please view this
document as under construction and with your help,
undergoing perfection.
xv. Visit www.kardtrick.com
Release notes 1.01
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Para iv. Changed “The designers of the One Page Game have earmarked
one rather odd reality-distorting” to “The designers of the One Page
Game earmark one rather odd reality-distorting…”
Para iv. Changed “you’re” to “for”
Para vii changed “What is one bowing too...” to “What is one bowing
to…”