The Game

In class this week, we talked about the different groups of philosophers and their philosophical beliefs. The atomists were ones that struck my attention with their claim that their is only void and atoms and that people do things for their own pleasure not to reach a certain end. So yesterday while I was watching one of my favorite tv shows, The Game, I began to think about this. The Game is a show about the lives of professional football players and those close to them. In the last few episodes one of the players Derwin and his wife Melanie were going through a crisis concerning Derwin's child by another woman. Melanie decided she wanted to have a paternity test done on the child to determine if it was his, but she did it without Derwin knowing. I believe Melanie was jealous of Derwin's son and baby's mother and wanted the spotlight all for herself. Her motives really had no end, it was pure pleasure. She wanted the pleasure of having Derwin all to herself not thinking about the possible consequences of her actions. She had no plan it was all instinct. Another of the players, Malik treated his loyal friend T.T. like trash and slept with his girlfriend because he stopped catering to Malik's every need. Malik's goal was to make T.T. feel bad, but once again he acted out of instinct not thinking about the consequences. So one cannot say Malik had an ultimate goal he was acting out of pleasure of seeing T.T. hurt because he may have felt abandoned and hurt also. I don't know if I fully agree with the atomist's point of view, but they may have came on to something. So many people act on instinct and pleasure not realizing that this will not help them get to the end in which they desire to reach.