“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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So basically organized league style sports and games? The kind that peaked with Putnam's bowling-alone culture?
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Putnam claimed it peaked in the 1950s iirc but I don't see why they can't exist in postmodernity (I'm on a sports league and I'm me lol)
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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
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putnam's argument kind of falls apart considering how much charity and community is happening on places like twitch.
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