This statement may sound like something from a hilarious episode of Ancient Aliens, but Go, and all other forms of Spirit; mental martial art, Ki, with a touch of the Chinese homonym for ki meaning for breath, life force, in the euphamsm; Are essential for humans to transition into a Kardashev 1 civilisation with destroying ourselves. Widespread ki would be equivalent to the blue marble in public consciounes; it would make it easier to transition to a type one economy, easier to support developing countries, and so on . . . Even now, it seems reasonsble to assume that those naturally predisposed to have a spirit or any mindsport as a hobby or profession are more suited to sit out a lockdown than others, an event that mainly occurs in worlds that are a fewdecimal points above K0. Intelligence or gaining advantage with it has increased rapidly in evolutionary fitness; alas, far faster than we actually evolve, hence many look down on mindsports even though they'll save us all.
Phase 1--'布石-Fuseki'. 'Let your children play with their (healthy) food'
You open up on all san-san. Then follow with moves ever more territorial, satisfied with the amount of points you acquire counting each one you think you've claimed. That is before someone walks behind you and notes the walls surrounding everyone of your groups.
At the time it applied to doubling the possibility of a world champion by not giving by accident half of the national population the misguided subconscious impression that they can't be strong at go, but it could apply to anything. The main goal in the fuseki is to avoid rapid growth into to something that would stagnate your progress later on by seeing to culture and quality while things are small and easy to change. Small is beautiful.
During the fuseki, perhaps it's best not to splurge your cash on things you've already don't before but now only more, concentrating your stones in one area of the board collecting territory, doing thing that appeal only to you or like you in that manner to make for rapid growth which stalls later on--perhaps not. Perhaps it's best to diversify your points on the board in the opening and try to see how they might work together. Of course some territory would be made--in my personal case, one half of that end would be to make it easier for pros by making international tournaments, but always with this phase in mind when making decisions. The other would be based on multiple low-cost fuseki points around the globe.
The key for me here is that territory in the fuseki is not valuable for points it gains in absolute terms, but rather fact that it shows there is a living group. It's not about spreading ki and making it more popular--it's about being a servant and find points on the globe or the country where mental martials arts would be most useful. And it would be about identifying the feel that would the least limits on any ki's future growth before attempting grow big. At least that's what it would seem to be about to me.
Extraterrestrials would pass by and note no intelligent life. We're on the to becoming a cerebral species, but already live in quite a cerebral world. Especially in a sparse country, unless the inhabitants have a intelligence or intelligence-pairing function--not so much the case in non-eastern parts--finding clubs for, for example either go or sho-gi or xiang-qi or even chess might be difficult. But if pact of mutual support was made between the largely marginalised mindsports that may quadruple the locations in which to find a particular sport. In fact, it would be extremely efficient to play go at a club as long as one effectively promises to be a forever beginner in another ki, and vice versa. Beginners would always have a non-bot of their level play against and this might be a positive step.
But! You might say. This is exactly what you warned against. Only certain kinds of people may be interested in ki in the way you present it, you'll increase the player rapidly but also personality homogeny and halt growth in the long term. Well this is were your creatively might come into it's own--really stretching your brain to do things never done before, to emotionally connect with all people, to rant on go forums like it's a personal fb page. Think of what the healthiest way for a type one sport to progress to ensure it saves humanity--before going too far down a limited road . . .
Maybe someone might try this experiment. A child can have as much junk food as wanted, but your only willing to make the effort to give empty carbs for a short period of time in one day of the week. For the rest the week, they'd have to make do with fruits. A junk-food lockdown. The main point here would be to let them play with healthy food, and eventually curiosity might get the better of their prejudices'. Prejudices', in this theory, as often them expressing dislike is often a codeword for expressing unfamiliarity, but not having the vocabulary to do so. As long as food is not wasted or eaten uncleaning, associating healthier foods with things familiar--play for example--at least to the same degree less healthy food is associated with things kids find familiar, seems the most natural strategy. If it works a little for healthier food it might work a little for healthier hobbies.
_________________ On Go proverbs: "A fine Gotation is a diamond in the hand of a dan of wit and a pebble in the hand of a kyu" —Joseph Raux misquoted.
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