Reply To: Of PoOP and TERDs; philosophic shit

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Funkadelic was great to see with George Clinton live for my bday many many many years ago. A good memory for me.

Continuing the train of thought… what is one of the reasons we enjoy games as we do? I propose as food for thought mental conflict. If The Three Great No-Nos of Polite Conversations are “sex, religion and politics” then we can see their correlation in great literature which stimulate our minds. Conflict with self, conflict with nature and conflict with society are each point that we struggle with. Given that we open up our “neurological assholes”, as Funkadelic was kind enough to sing about, we tend to bump into other people and likely rub them the wrong way. As we are social creatures we find ways of diffusing these stresses in agreed upon mock combat to press into conflict without actual loss of limb or property (mostly). Here we have varying scale of conflict with tiny fighting men or the skill with which we paint/convert or even changing storylines from competition results. Each thing is related and is a microcosm of how we as people affect change. Its a relese valve.

Your thoughts?