“The game is the thing.” (Alan Macfarlane, The Making of the Modern World)pic.twitter.com/4R8zuO3qJW
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really appreciating the perspective that takes hobbies, games, etc. as the load-bearing foundation of non-fascist civilization
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Hmm this seems a bit at odds with the perspectives in for eg. Huizenga or Geertz Deep Play (the part about demands of politics/kinship/faith being excluded... IME they strongly define the context of play folkways)
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yeah this is something different - what makes it modern in his view is the decoupling from the other spheres
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not just hobbies and games but the *organizations* that support them - precisely what people like cass sunstein want to abolish! https://www.unz.com/isteve/sunstein-could-bowling-leagues-and-pta/ … (obvious straussian reading: "...and they could wipe out the elites here!" then again, dude doesn't understand twitter.)
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amusing to imagine he's straussianing a certain person's "*German* cats" with the animal breeding linepic.twitter.com/pZYYdg5hhB
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There's a reason circuses are right up there with bread.
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I get that, but pro sports culture, created by marketing, has rebuilt the tribalism that fascism exploits.
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