deep play

is a kind of play such as gambling, in which the stakes are so high that from a utilitarian standpoint, it is irrational for men to engage in it at all. And yet what is on the line is esteem, honor, dignity, respect, and status.

Geertz, borrowing the term from Jeremy Bentham, has examined 'deep play.' 'Deep play' means 'play in which the stakes are so high that it is, from [a] utilitarian standpoint, irrational for men to engage in it at all.' Geertz made his comments as a part of his consideration of Balinese cock fighting, where men bet much more than they can afford to lose and where 'in seeking earthly analogues for heaven and hell the Balanese compare the former to the mood of a man whose cock has just won, the latter to that of a man whose cock has just lost.' (douglas comer 'ritual ground' . . . 'In deep (play), where the amounts of money are great, much more is at stake than material gain: namely, esteem, honor, dignity, respect in a word . . . status'

is an absence of mental noise -liberating, soothing, and exciting.

. 'Deep play is an absence of mental noise -liberating, soothing, and exciting. . . .We spend our lives in pursuit of those moments of feeling whole, or being in the moment of deep play.'

is not concerned with an activity, like shallow play. It has to do with attitude or an extraordinarily intense state.

. 'Deep play doesn't have to do with an activity, like shallow play. It has to do with attitude or an extraordinarily intense state.'

is not so much a practice that threatens the culture (as bentham suggests)... rather, it enriches it, symbolizing 'the dramatization of status concerns'.

So for Geertz the deep play is not so much a practice that threatens the culture... rather, it enriches it, symbolizing 'the dramatization of status concerns'.

is play in which the stakes are so high that it is irrational for men to engage in it at all.

Deep play is 'play in which the stakes are so high that it is . . . irrational for men to engage in it at all.'

is a matter of losing either one's money or one's character.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves.

Deep play is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves.

is the ecstatic form of play. In its thrall, all the play elements are visible, but they're taken to intense and transcendent heights.

Deep play is the ecstatic form of play. In its thrall, all the play elements are visible, but they're taken to intense and transcendent heights.

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deep play