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The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....we have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. it does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.
-Johan Huizinga
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Johan Huizinga
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....we have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. it does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.
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