In economic game theory, there is a very typical type of game called Cockfighting. Chicken means cowardly in American colloquialism. Therefore, the game of eating chicken should be translated as “game of cowardice”.
Whether it’s a coward game or a cockfighting game, the description of this game is just right. If it is a game of cowards, its core meaning is that whoever retreats actively is a coward. If it is called a cockfighting game, it may be more intuitively understood from the name. The two sides of the game, like cockfights, come to life when you think of them, and the battle scenes come into view.
Two roosters meet on a narrow road, and the killing could break out at any moment. There are four results:
- When two chickens confront each other, neither will let the other side, they all hope to use their eyes or domineering gestures, or constantly make various sounds to scare the other side;
- It is better to hit your mouth and put on airs, hit your paws to death;
- One retreat and one advance, retreat will result in loss, loss of dignity or physical exertion;
- War of words, posturing, two chickens give in to each other and laugh at each other.
Judging from the results of the cockfighting game, in reality, long-term confrontation often occurs when the strength is comparable and no one dares to easily shake the truth, such as the hegemony of the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the consumption process is too long, and the winning side also consumes a lot of resources.
Major wars are often under the circumstance of crushing strength, such as the use of force by the United States against Iraq and the former Yugoslavia.
War of words is also very common, and finally a third party is forcibly persuaded to fight. A typical example is the movie “Young and Dangerous”. A wine party was set up for a while and nothing happened. But there must be sequelae, for example, with the change of the elder brother’s strength, or the change of the younger brother’s strength, it will break out again.
The most complicated is the one-step back-and-forth case. Who comes back and who comes in? Neither side is willing to back off, and they know the other is not willing to back off. In this case, in order to win in momentum and overwhelm the opponent, it is necessary to issue the threat of “breaking the boat”, which is a threat that the opponent has every reason to believe. A party threatened by this trust is reluctant to choose a larger conflict with the other party. When there is a suitable step, it will step back decisively, or take the initiative to create a suitable step by itself, and step back more decently.
It can be seen from the above analysis that in the cockfighting game, when the enemy cannot be killed with one move, there will be repeated fights and tug-of-war, which is a great test for the cockfighting itself and the reserve team.
Of course, in addition to the above four situations, there will be a very serious ending: the cockfight is too hot, causing a stronger reaction from the audience. shooting. For example, in a football match, football hooligans make trouble, and the personal safety of some players is threatened because of a crucial match.