LOL!
speaking of metaphors
... rather we are 'pawns' to be used and pushed around the board in multiple strategies as the players choose. Once we implicitily agreed to be pawns, it is a pawn we are for evermore ... the players change, the pawns wait until moved once more ...
Sad and I fear true. Because we seek order rather than chaos. Chaos is all around, only contained; breaking out occasionally; which disturbs the pawns deeply, and then comes the cry ... "Oh mighty players tell us what we must do" ...