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{{a|book review|{{br|Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility}} by {{author|James P. Carse}}}} | {{a|book review|{{br|Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility}} by {{author|James P. Carse}}}} | ||
So much in this book — a rather obscure piece of cod philosophy from a religious studies professor in the mid nineteen-eighties that is having a fertile third aged, having been picked up by [[Life coach|life-coach]] to the [[LinkedIn]] generation, {{author|Simon Sinek}}, and spoken of reverently by {{author|Stewart Brand}} and those of the Long Now persuasion. | |||
Carse, who died last year, is wilfully aphoristic in his literary style, and this is off-putting.<ref>Notably, Carse’s talks about the infinite game concept are much ''less'' cryptic and are worth checking out.</ref> He often says things like: | |||
{{quote|Of infinite players we can also say that if they play they play freely; if they ''must'' play, they cannot ''play''.}} | |||
Now this is important, but the book would be better — and more scrutable — had Carse taken more time to explain exactly this is meant to mean. That may be why Mr. Sinek has been able to make such hay: that is in a sense the job he has done.<ref>{{br|The Infinite Game}} by {{author|Simon Sinek}} (2019) ([https://g.co/kgs/J4Mg35 see here]).</ref> But, irony: the job of imaginatively deducing what Mr. Carse meant with his gnomic interventions is a kind of infinite game of its own — one that Mr. Sinek is playing pretty well. So let us join in. | |||
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