pg 16
The true Master Player plays as though the game is already in the past, according to a scrpt whose every details is known prior to the play itself.
this in modern day is called visualization which is encouraged specifically to ease anxiety when talking in front of people. know your game back and forth and you will be fine. you will win.
infinite players on the other hand continue their play in the expectation fo begin surprised. if surprise is not longer possible, all play ceases.
this is best associated with improviisation and also the process of trying a million ways of doing the same thing like interpreting an apple visually.
because finite players are trained to prevent the future from altering the past, they must hide their future moves. the unprepared opponent must be kept unprepared. Finite players must appear to be something other than what they are. Everything about their appearance must be concealing. To appear is not to appear. All the moves of a finite player must be deceptive: feints, distraction, falsiifications, misdirection, mystifications.
It is not an openness as in candor, but an openness as in vulverability. It is not a matter of exposing one’s unchanging identity, the ture self that has always been, but a way of exposing one’s ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be. THe infinite player does not expect only to be amused by surprise, but to be transformed by it, for suprise does not alter some abstract past, but one’s own personal past.
to be prepared against suprise is to be trained. to be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
I guess I would want to look at this as technically savy is to be prepared against surprise to be trained
to be prepared for surprise is to be educated is to know how to let your mind go and be able to take the skills you have to play.
“Carse describes infinite gamers as people who think beyond the artificial constructs of our lives (nations, societies, possessions, etc.) and recognize that most of social hierarchy is a form of play (drama, performance, roles).”
much life facebook and photoshop. nothing needs authenticity anymore. it’s not in vogue. I can be a vacuum cleaner if I choose to be.
the super you the chosen one
life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they ar timeless, may not be extinguished by death. immorttality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.
the joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish. I could have been a contender. names titles the contessa.
to see power is to look backward in time. to speak meaningfully of a person’s power is to speak of what that person has already completed in one or another closed field.
power is bestowed by an audience after the play is complete.
power is contradictory and theatrical.
it’s a bit cheesy and simple minded especially when he goes off on what is considered evil returning to zion, islamicization because your history does not belong to me.
