playing

parenting

1980s

make-believe

pretending

garbage

cleaning up

social media

technology

hanging out

chilling

is what spectators do when they forget they're watching.

Playing is what spectators do when they forget they're watching.

is viewed in the West as a way to adjust to reality, so that eventually we can chuck away the teddy bear like Wittgenstein’s ladder.

We are supposed to get behind the idea that playing is a way to adjust to reality, so that eventually we can chuck away the teddy bear like Wittgenstein’s ladder. By the age of ten, we have already decided that literature should not be about talking toasters or friendly frogs. Such entities are at best labeled “transitional objects” that allow one to mature from play to reality, itself a telling opposition.18

playing, n.All

playing