“The game is the thing.” (Alan Macfarlane, The Making of the Modern World)
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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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thought of you when I read "escape into modernity"
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