But you see, when we use the word game or play in English. We usually tend to mean that it’s something trivial. You see, we divide life very strictly into play and work. Other people’s don’t do this.
And that’s one of those shattering the awful features of our culture.
This division of play and work so that most people are working at tasks which they hate so that they can make enough money to stop doing it and play. This is perfectly ridiculous. Nobody needs to do that.
Because what you get with work. Done in this way. Done heartlessly and without joy is money. And what can you do with it? Supposing you do earn time to spare and money to spend, what is there to buy with it? The answer is the other fake and joyless products made by other people who hate their work.
So there is a certain phoniness, a certain lack of essential quality in almost all the work that we perform, because the work is done not for the work, but for money.
And play is considered something separate from work. Work is serious, play is not serious. In fact, we have a strange incapacity to play at all because we always, especially in the United States, play with an ulterior motive. That is to say, play is good for you. And we do everything because it’s good for us, because we judge the physical world with. Without our senses, we judge in theory.
We believe that the proof of the pudding is not in the eating, but in the chemical analysis.
