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βAnd Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, βTo play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of making possible the activity of overcoming them.β β¦
And the way I think of [games] sometimes, after Suits, is that games are
... See more"games as agency"...what does this say about human "free-hoodβ?
Free-hood seems a more apt word than βfreedomβ. I mean that the essence of human being is free-hood.
The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the gameβs terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity.
New York Times β’ A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
I love this! Nguyen follows this up with
βThe philosopher Talbot Brewer, in his book, βThe Retrieval of Ethics,β says something like weβve lost sight of how important activities are and weβre just obsessed with how important the output is and the product is. And thatβs partially because weβve been swept up in this hyper-industrialized product-oriented world where we think, look, the thing that Iβm trying to achieve is the thing thatβs valuable. And I think what we lose sight of is how interesting it can be to be caught in the process of doing something.β