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It's like an alien culture out of a Star Trek episode. Play is not an anomaly, but the essence of personal and technological development. The fuel of progress
by Red_Tarsius 11y ago
It's like an alien culture out of a Star Trek episode.
Play is not an anomaly, but the essence of personal and technological development. The fuel of progress is play and Learning by example is no substitute for trial and error. On top of that, a play-less culture is not resilient at all, and therefore prone to extinction.
- Aqwis 11y ago>It's like an alien culture out of a Star Trek episode. Agree, it reminded me of the "Planet of Hats"[1] trope. [1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats
- lovemenot 11y agoI believe one of the most difficult aspects of anthropology is to extract ones own cultural biases from observations. >> Play is not an anomaly, but the essence of personal and technological development It's not that I disagree with you per se. Rather that you just stated baldly as fact, what are clearly just your own (and my own) biases. >> a play-less culture is not resilient at all, and therefore prone to extinction. Perhaps, but against that, it seems the Baining people have been this way for at least a hundred years. Perhaps considerably longer.
- oldmanjay 11y agowell they aren't exactly thriving using a modern understanding of the word. in a sense, they avoided extinction narrowly by not being found by a white dude with an evangelical streak at the wrong point in history
- elihu 11y agoThe article reminded me of the "Country of Adults" from Kino no Tabi.