Every once in a while I'll have an itch to scratch, a bone to pick with the general status of affairs. Impossible to predict, comes on as it will, so for what it's worth . . . catch as catch can.
The pseudo-mathematical doctrine of 'basic strategy' is built upon the false idols of 'random number theory'. Nothing random about this esoteric arrangement of numbers, the game of '21' is the product of pure inter-connective mathematical formula. Attempting to solve a patently non-random number system with random number solutions is like inserting oranges into a juicer and expecting to find apple juice in your cup.
One can shuffle these numbers ad infinitum without ever tipping their numeric balance, order maintained by those precise (numerological) values designated to the 'royal family' . . . upon a time long gone. (You know - 10, 10, 10.)
Can one really imagine themselves an author-ity on this game without knowing it's author(s) exact mathematical reason for flat lining the values of the J,Q,K at '10'? Which is to say, how can you solve a problem when you don't even know what it is? Hmm ??
Increasingly, fiction and fact have become indistinguishable, as people concede the only real freedom they have (between their ears) to a consensus (p c) version of reality. Simply parroting what they hear, they'll accept what they're told over the evidence of their own eyes, common sense, or whatever passes anymore for independent thought. This psycho-phenomenon, now social norm, is referred to as 'cognitive dissonance'.
One small example - for all you avid card flippers out there - might be as follows: A well disciplined '21' player begins to notice that their boots on the ground (win/loss) results don't consistently reflect the numbers up on the ('B.S'.) chalkboard . . . but continue to dismiss the disparities as operator error.
The game of '21' is, in short, a card trick. Granted, it is beyond sophisticated, ancient, and indecipherable to conventional linear thinking. A card trick nonetheless.
Shuffling has about as much chance of influencing the underlying numeric relationships of this game as elections have of altering the status quo. (The primary purpose of both being misdirection.) What is it they say? If elections could actually affect real change, they'd be illegal. But I digress . . . .again.
The bad news for those still looking for (randomized) luck in all the wrong places; the cosmic wheel of numbers that is '21' has been set on a 'fixed' course. The good news for all you treasure seekers is that you now have a (new) place to start digging.
S.
The pseudo-mathematical doctrine of 'basic strategy' is built upon the false idols of 'random number theory'. Nothing random about this esoteric arrangement of numbers, the game of '21' is the product of pure inter-connective mathematical formula. Attempting to solve a patently non-random number system with random number solutions is like inserting oranges into a juicer and expecting to find apple juice in your cup.
One can shuffle these numbers ad infinitum without ever tipping their numeric balance, order maintained by those precise (numerological) values designated to the 'royal family' . . . upon a time long gone. (You know - 10, 10, 10.)
Can one really imagine themselves an author-ity on this game without knowing it's author(s) exact mathematical reason for flat lining the values of the J,Q,K at '10'? Which is to say, how can you solve a problem when you don't even know what it is? Hmm ??
Increasingly, fiction and fact have become indistinguishable, as people concede the only real freedom they have (between their ears) to a consensus (p c) version of reality. Simply parroting what they hear, they'll accept what they're told over the evidence of their own eyes, common sense, or whatever passes anymore for independent thought. This psycho-phenomenon, now social norm, is referred to as 'cognitive dissonance'.
One small example - for all you avid card flippers out there - might be as follows: A well disciplined '21' player begins to notice that their boots on the ground (win/loss) results don't consistently reflect the numbers up on the ('B.S'.) chalkboard . . . but continue to dismiss the disparities as operator error.
The game of '21' is, in short, a card trick. Granted, it is beyond sophisticated, ancient, and indecipherable to conventional linear thinking. A card trick nonetheless.
Shuffling has about as much chance of influencing the underlying numeric relationships of this game as elections have of altering the status quo. (The primary purpose of both being misdirection.) What is it they say? If elections could actually affect real change, they'd be illegal. But I digress . . . .again.
The bad news for those still looking for (randomized) luck in all the wrong places; the cosmic wheel of numbers that is '21' has been set on a 'fixed' course. The good news for all you treasure seekers is that you now have a (new) place to start digging.
S.
