How Western rationalist philosophy is
killing off the prospects of peace in Syria"Bashani closed his inspiring speech with an example from chess, which he sees as ‘an essentially genocidal form of play designed to perpetuate binary oppositions.’ He argued that it is possible for chess pieces to move freely along the board while avoiding the other pieces, this creating a perpetual state of motion that doesn’t require winners and losers. In fact, he argued that eventually chess pieces will acquire autonomous agency if we didn’t insist on anthropomorphic control. If only the rest of the world can see the wisdom in those words, peace would be within our reach."