“The game is the thing.” (Alan Macfarlane, The Making of the Modern World)pic.twitter.com/4R8zuO3qJW
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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.
oh my gosh MacFarlane makes exactly that distinction with the same German words
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Well, Tonnies *is* sort of like the Newton of sociology. You can't avoid his concepts in any analysis of such basic phenomena as gaming
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what I want from games or clubs or whatever is the experience of everyone's natural healthy status drives being directed toward the group's ends - especially making better stories
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