Reality Is Broken

the “anthropocene epoch,”

Reality is stuck in the present. Games help us imagine and invent the future together.

behave. For people who don’t see themselves as natural dancers, their TSDO disguise is meant to free them from that limiting self-identity.

Gobekli Tepe,

When we’re afraid of failure or danger, or when the pressure is coming from an external source, extreme neurochemical activation doesn’t make us happy. It makes us angry and combative, or it makes us want to escape and shut down emotionally. It can also trigger avoidance behaviors, like eating, smoking, or taking drugs.9

To generate the emotional reward of naches, we have to throw ourselves into the act of mentoring.

“The larger the entity you can attach yourself to,” Seligman advises, “the more meaning you can derive.”8

His research suggests that the ability to play complex games together, and to help others learn the rules of a game, represents the essence of what makes us human—something he calls “shared intentionality.”2

The obstacles they face are so enormous, and the resources they have so limited, that their solutions must be more creative, more resourceful, and more resilient than traditional solutions developed by the rest of the world. EVOKE is designed to help players become a part of the emerging culture of African ingenuity—to build up their social innovat