Post #4160456
2026-07-28 09:09 UTC
“Leisure is also 1) freedom to enter, even to generate new symbolic worlds of entertainment, sports, games, diversions of all kinds. It is, furthermore, 2) freedom to transcend social structural limitations, freedom to play - with ideas, with fantasies, with words ... with paint... and with social relationships-in friendship, sensitivity training, psychodramas, and in other ways" ...
Turner, V., 1974. Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual: An Essay in Comparative Symbology.
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@simulo@hci.social 2026-07-28 09:10
“Work and leisure were made separate spheres, and "work" became sacred de facto, as the arena in which one's salvation might be objectively demonstrated.” ... "Organized sport ("pedagogic" play) better fits the Puritan tradition than unorganized children's play ("pediarchic" play) or mere dalliance, which is time wasted”