“The game is the thing.” (Alan Macfarlane, The Making of the Modern World)pic.twitter.com/4R8zuO3qJW
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I'm trying to figure out how modern domestic-cozy subculture around indie board game nights or small groups of video-gamers is different from the bowling league stuff. The latter had a much more... tocquevillean I suppose... org culture. The former seems more intimate somehow
tocquevillean exactly - the intimate kind is demanding in a different way
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I think I make a distinction between group memberships which grant you things like membership cards and numbers (Gesellschaft orgs) and ones where your membership quality is a function of who networked you in, and how (Gemeinschaft orgs). Putnam was about the former in decline.
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oh my gosh MacFarlane makes exactly that distinction with the same German words
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