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Johan Huizinga on play

Huizinga argued that play comes before culture and is actually the root of all meaningful human activity—we don't play because we're human, we're human because we play. Once you see culture, law, art, and ritual as elaborate play, you notice how much violence comes from people who forgot how.

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