- 28 Aug 2018 17:01
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"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals... is incompatible with freedom."
- Patrick Henry
I get your point @SolarCross , but even in your examples there is still a pretty big difference between Chess and reading literature.
I mean, at some point, we need to embrace the old expression "its just a game" when people would rarely say "just a book" about any piece of great literature.
I mean, who would call a game of Chess as masterpiece of Western art?
I think you can substitute gaming in this (Though I will grant some difference, consider the impact of ID software, square-enix, and nintendo on the modern world....there is definitely something to it, but is it much different than the NFL's impact on culture, or that of any major sport?)
I have mixed feelings on film and even contemporary music though, contra @Red_Army .
In some ways I feel we have exchanged adoration for Kings and Philosophers for what in former times would have been considered the Jesters and folk-singers of a people. Such have been elevated to god-like status and even our politics reflects this (i.e. Trump).
Does anyone remember the actors of the early Shakespeare plays? No, but they sure-as-hell remember Shakespeare and appropriately so.
This was a great time where actors (jesters) were attended with the seriousness they actually deserved.....but I digress.
I mean, at some point, we need to embrace the old expression "its just a game" when people would rarely say "just a book" about any piece of great literature.
I mean, who would call a game of Chess as masterpiece of Western art?
I think you can substitute gaming in this (Though I will grant some difference, consider the impact of ID software, square-enix, and nintendo on the modern world....there is definitely something to it, but is it much different than the NFL's impact on culture, or that of any major sport?)
I have mixed feelings on film and even contemporary music though, contra @Red_Army .
In some ways I feel we have exchanged adoration for Kings and Philosophers for what in former times would have been considered the Jesters and folk-singers of a people. Such have been elevated to god-like status and even our politics reflects this (i.e. Trump).
Does anyone remember the actors of the early Shakespeare plays? No, but they sure-as-hell remember Shakespeare and appropriately so.
This was a great time where actors (jesters) were attended with the seriousness they actually deserved.....but I digress.
"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals... is incompatible with freedom."
- Patrick Henry