Playing the Nation

How many times in your life have you looked at the national government and thought, "Man, I could be doing a better job than they are" or "I cannot believe they would do that. Do they really think that is going to work?".  It seems rather funny when we do not believe in some of the strategic moves of some of the brightest minds in the world. I wonder how we would really compare in very basic strategy games against some of those brilliant minds that run the most powerful government in the world. What if we could really test that. Well the truth is, with the modern day technology, I believe we can.

Probably one of the most popular technology games in the world are very basic pressured strategy games like Tetrus or Bubble Blast; games that force you to make a decision in a quick amount of time. The rules are very basic and nearly everyone of all ages can play this game and be successful. Now wouldn't it be an interesting story to see how your scores would match up with the president's or the Secretary of Defense's? I think that it would. I mean after all we are asking these men to make some of the most important decisions in our life time, I hope that they wouldn't buckle under the pressure.

My intention would be to run a news story that compares the scores of basic strategy games between some of our leaders and simply some of the normal people. Now granted just because you might be good at an Iphone game doesn't make you necessariy qualified to run the country but I think it would say something about your decision making skills. It would say something about how you handle yourself when the pressure is one and everyone is watching. When you are backed into a corner, how are you going to make the right move to find your way to the next level.

I believe that this use of the new media literacy in "play" would be a way to really register the decision making of some of our leaders and our brightest minds. I believe that it would give us an opportunity to compare the strategy and decision making skills of people in a new way of using technology. This would truly be a useful tactic for all of us to test ourselves in the future.