It was never a fair fight.
When it goes wrong, your first move isn't grief — it's an audit of the officiating. The job went to someone's nephew. The professor had favorites. The algorithm buried you. The Eye has reviewed your case history and noticed the pattern: you don't ask 'what did I do wrong,' you ask 'who moved the lines.' And here's the uncomfortable part — you're right often enough to keep the theory alive. The world genuinely isn't fair, and you have the receipts. But the Eye has also clocked what the skepticism does for you: if the contest was rigged, then your effort was never really judged, and if your effort was never judged, it can't be found lacking. The crooked whistle is painful, but it's painless compared to the alternative. The Eye isn't saying the refs are clean. The Eye is saying you check their pockets before you check your own.
Get your read — free on iPhonethe rigged-game theory has one quiet benefit you never say out loud: if it was never fair, you were never really measured.