I’m writing this in hopes that everyone who comes across this has seen the Netflix series, Alice in borderland.

If you haven’t seen it, I’m hoping you’ve seen squid game because they have similar concepts, play the games or you die. But instead of money you get the gift of LIFE.

What I find particularly interesting of the Jack of hearts is this. 

The game begins with a group of people trapped in a solitary confinement. There is enough food and water to last everyone for as long as they will be there. A collar is attached to the neck of each player and on the back of it is a shape of a card displayed on it. 

Now each player can’t see their own cards but you can see the one displayed on the other players. And you can’t try to look at the back of your collar through any reflective surface. 

All you have to do is every hour step into one of the rooms and state the correct card shape on your collar. After which the game resets and the shape changes. 

Seems pretty easy, just ask another player for the card and say that once you step in. But the game is built on trust and trust is something scarce among humans. 

Amongst the players is a jack of hearts who the players are meant to catch. You identify the jack of hearts and you win the game. 

But even if you don’t win, you can always just live there like I said there’s enough food, space and water to accommodate one another. 

But that’s not what happens because when humans are afraid there is little room for trust. 

It’s ironic just how close to reality this is. We can’t see other’s intention towards us so we are stuck with a decision to make. “Do we trust them or not?” 

From the first round, rather than be united there is immediately class divide and each one tries to form groups or clusters of who they can trust except they can’t trust anyone. 

You see how their fear and doubt begins to divide them as they each ask themselves, “Can I trust this person?” 

It’s ironic just how close to reality this is. We can’t see other’s intention towards us so we are stuck with a decision to make. “Do we trust them or not?”