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kindness or consideration, but only for the greatest good of the
greatest number—the number one. It is in this perspective that
it is easy to see why war has been called the sport of kings. For
kingdoms are to monarchs what patrimonies and private
income are to the private citizen. Kings can play poker with
kingdoms, as the generals of their armies do with troops. They
can bluff and deceive the opponent about their resources and
their intentions. What disqualifies war from being a true game
is probably what also disqualifies the stock market and
business—the rules are not fully known nor accepted by all the
players. Furthermore, the audience is too fully participant in
war and business, just as in a native society there is no true art
because everybody is engaged in making art. Art and games
need rules, conventions, and spectators. They must stand
forth from the overall situation as models of it in order for the
quality of play to persist. For “play,” whether in life or in a