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— George E. P. Box</blockquote>Ultimately, the distinction between finite and infinite games eludes. The games we play are not all well-defined. What looks today to be an infinite game of creative possibility can, tomorrow resemble a fight to the death. As with any model of the world, we should use it to frame and illuminate, not to rule. ''Finite and Infinite Games'' is no great falsification of the world as we see it: to treat it that way would be wilfully to misunderstand its essential argument. | — George E. P. Box</blockquote>Ultimately, the distinction between finite and infinite games eludes. The games we play are not all well-defined. What looks today to be an infinite game of creative possibility can, tomorrow resemble a fight to the death. As with any model of the world, we should use it to frame and illuminate, not to rule. ''Finite and Infinite Games'' is no great falsification of the world as we see it: to treat it that way would be wilfully to misunderstand its essential argument. | ||
Instead, it offers us tools to reimagine ourselves, our struggles, our achievements and the world. The more ways we can redraw ourselves, the better we can play the infinite game.{{sa}} | Instead, it offers us tools to reimagine ourselves, our struggles, our achievements and the world. The more ways we can redraw ourselves, the better we can play the infinite game. | ||
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*[[Paradigm failure]] | *[[Paradigm failure]] | ||
*[[Interminable game]] | *[[Interminable game]] | ||
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{{c|Big ideas}} | {{c|Big ideas}} | ||