Finite and Infinite Games: Difference between revisions

Carse was a religious studies professor with an aphoristic style, in the habit of saying things like: <blockquote>“… if you are the genius of what you say to me, I am the genius of what I hear you say. What you say originally I can hear only originally. As you surrender the sound on your lips, I surrender the sound in my ear.”</blockquote>As such, [[Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility|''Finite and Infinite Games'']] might well have silted into the geological record, somewhere between Erich von Däniken and [[The End of History and the Last Man|Francis Fukuyama]], never to be heard from again until being recycled for peat — but since [[Simon Sinek]]<ref>[[The Infinite Game|''The Infinite Game'']] by [[Simon Sinek]] (2019), though Sinek’s book is a truly terrible misreading of Carse’s point — it really hard almost no resemblance — and we could not recommend it.</ref> recently wrote about it, it is having a fertile third age, and when minds as luminous as [[Stewart Brand]]’s speak reverently of it, there might be life for it yet above the daisies.