Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but conti...

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past. Societal convention, on the other hand, requires that a completed past be repeated in the future. Society has all the seriousness of immortal necessity; culture resounds with the laughter of unexpected possibility. Society is abstract, culture concrete. — James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

— James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

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James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse