New here and following some advice in adding a few hashtags to my account to aid new connections.
#pacelayers
#apatternlanguage / #howbuildingslearn
#longnow
#systemicdesign
#theatredesign / #theaterdesign
#immersiveinternet / #spatialweb
#placemaking / #place
#seeinglikeastate / #finiteandinfinitegames
That feels about right for now.

"Myths that cannot be forgotten are those so resonant with the paradox of silence they become the source of our thinking, even our culture, and our civilization."

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"A myth resounds in me when its voice is heard in mine but not heard as mine."

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"Myths are like magic trees in the garden of culture. They do not grow on but out of the silent earth of nature."

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"A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths."

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"We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it."

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"Most consumer products are 'styled' inasmuch as they actually standardize the activity or the taste of the consumer.

In a perfect contradiction we are urged to buy a 'styled' artifact because others are also buying it - that is, we are asked to express our genius by giving up our genius."

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"Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail.

A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to a horizontal way of seeing."

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"the titled, as titled, cannot speak with anyone"
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Witness the feeble attempts of the British royal family to appear 'human', while clinging on to hereditary power.

"If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history."
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"When sufficiently oblivious to their status as audience, the observers of a finite game become so absorbed in its conduct that they lose the sense of distance between themselves and the players."

Often expressed by football fans when referring to their team as 'we' instead of 'them'.

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"To look at is to look for. It is to bring the limitations with us. 'Nature has no outline. Imagination has' (Blake)"
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"Poets cannot kill; they die. Metaphysics cannot die; it kills."
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"True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets - that is, creators of all sorts - seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art."
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"Who lives horizontally is never somewhere, but always in passage."
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"Infinite players have rules; they just do not forget that rules are an expression of agreement and not a requirement for agreement."
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"poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously."

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This is so relevant now:

"This is why patriotism - that is, the desire to protect the power in a society by way of increasing the power of a society - is inherently belligerent. Since there can be no prizes without a society, no society without opponents, patriots must create enemies before we can require protection from them."
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Basically patriots thrive by creating downward spirals at the expense of the larger whole.

"Therefore, insofar as we recognize their titles we withdraw from any contest with them in those areas." #finiteandinfinitegames

Wat Tyler famously refused to recognise the king's title, a major insult to royalty, then and now - their title is really all they have:

"Wat Tyler [...] approached the King and demanded confirmation of these concessions. His manner was rough and coarse and he only reluctantly bent his knee before referring to the King as brother."
http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/richard-ii-the-boy-who-would-be-king/

I will be posting excerpts from time to time from James P. Carse's classic book #finiteandinfinitegames and may make some comments on them.

"To the degree that one is protected against the future, one has established a boundary and no longer plays with but against others."