AUTHOR: Sarab DATE: 3:43:00 PM ----- BODY:

believe me, trust me... i want to be on your side, on your team. i want the best for you and your kin.

i don't know where the boundary lies between my team and yours, friend and foe, teammate and opponent; and i am not sure what difference it would make, if i knew where that boundary line lay.

but i do know, that without that line, i feel less trusting, less generous, less friendly, less cheery, less optimistic, more cynical, more angry, you get the jist.

i don't know the line between what i own and you own. i don't know where my property ends and your's begins. "good fences make good neighbors" that never made too much sense to me. maybe i just grew up too isolated, and hence wanted fewer barriers to be with people.

i don't want you to know who i am, but i want to know who you are. i will keep you at an arms length. i want you-on-demand. i don't want to be responsive to your needs, but i do want you to be responsive to my needs.

i want you to treat me as i am, as i want to be, as i am before you; i don't want you to analyze my personal history; but i want to know your personal history, because that way i can decide if you are trustworthy.

so in that case, make up your personal history. in order to play a game, you need to know as much about the agents in the game as possible, to get from them what you want.

game theory.

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