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Hey all<div><br></div><div>Been on the sidelines of this brawling symposium, writing punditry for cash, but said punditry certainly informed by this discussion, even as I sneak it past the newspaper editors...</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a piece on Micheal Jackson as, I guess, 'playlabourer' <a href="http://www.theplayethic.com/2009/06/michealjackson.html">http://www.theplayethic.com/2009/06/michealjackson.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And here's my forthcoming review of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated for the Independent newspaper.</div><div><br></div><div>Will properly engage with the most recent 30,000 words soon...</div><div><br></div><div>pk</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">LIFE INCORPORATED</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">How the world became a corporation and how to take it back</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Douglas Rushkoff (Bodley Head, £12.99)</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">When faced with windy laments of civilisational decline, you can always rely on British popular culture to worm its antic way into your brain. Throughout this overstated thesis in praise of bottom-up community against top-down capitalism, I kept seeing and hearing the frightening visages of the BBC's The League of Gentlemen: "We're </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">local </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">people… doing </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">local </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">things".</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Unfair, I know. But Rushkoff is so infuriatingly magisterial in this book that you reach, with some desperation, for the nearest court jester.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">It's the right moment to read long-view analyses of our commercialised society. Ruskoff's Life Incorporated is as fluent and well-researched as any of his books – but its target is too large, and too badly constructed, to help us much. In a heaving rush of anti-modern sentiment, Rushkoff bundles together vast and complex trends over the last half-millenium – political, economic, scientific and cultural - into a monolith called 'corporatism'.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For him, corporatism isn't just a form of commercial enterprise cooked up by 15th century merchants and monarchs to control and standardise the varied social markets of the early Middle Ages – an account he takes, accurately, from the great French historical masters Aries and Braudel. It's also a kind of permanent civilisational war – abstraction, universalism and individualism, versus the face-to-face, the local and the communitarian.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But like a CGI-generated Transformer robot with a faulty program, the monster's pieces just don't hold together. For one thing, not all universalised standards – a brand which Rushkoff sizzles into many hides, from the first central currencies to the latest "flashy" social network – are as implicitly "fascist" as he suggests.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">How about that brutal reduction of our oral traditions known as the printed book? A format so standardised, both physically and in terms of the settled national languages it regularly deploys, that it can convey the new verities of the village to audiences all round the world. Rushkoff deprecates the cultivation of interiority and subjective reflection in almost every realm except the one in which he plys his own trade.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">So oppressive is the shadow of this corporate behemoth in Rushkoff's mind that the actual historical forces of resistance to capitalism and imperialism (more boring but more accurate terminologies) end up being downgraded or ignored. The Renaissance and Enlightenment is nailed for being an epistemological hand-maiden to domination by distant, centralising powers – its "clean, universal truths [keeping] people's attention and eyes upward, and off one another": a disconnection that allows David Hume to support slavery and democrats to ignore the rights of women.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But what about Romanticism? With its celebration of the organic and the rooted, its passionate feminists and early ecologists, casting off the "mind-forg'd manacles" of industrial society – and fuelled by all that nasty subjectivism?</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Rushkoff's attitude to the labour movement as a corrective to the march of corporations is also, as he might say, kinda weird. He often bundles unions in with other "community-minded" groups, whose hands-on, in-the-streets sociability is swamped and subverted by a miasma of capitalist ruses – everything from housing regulations to self-help courses, never mind the obvious traps of easy credit and ad-driven consumerism.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But again, is this really a battle between local, face-to-face virtue versus universal, faceless vice? Rushkoff undercuts his own argument when he supports industry-wide collective bargaining on wages and conditions. Yes, you could see it as part of the Sabbath tradition of holy days of collective rest – but it's also a continuing modern struggle conducted (at its best) in a supra-local way.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">That Rushkoff is a sinner in repentance has been evident from his last few books. He turned spy on the marketing industry that initially feted him in </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Coercion,</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> urged companies to eschew consultants in </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Get Back In The Box</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, even attempted to create his own open-source version of Judaism in </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Nothing Sacred</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">. But there's something particularly galling about a one-time evangelist of 'cyberia' and 'playing the future' (titles of his earlier books) who decides to wizz all over the current vibrancy of social media.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Yes, it's a battleground between the copyright enclosures of the corporations, and the frankly neo-communist behaviours of users, hackers and convivials – but there </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">is </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">a battle of values going on. One which shapes Californian internet platforms so much that they find themselves being used as tools for Iranian insurgents – their locality becoming our world responsibility, through (guess what?) the robustly universal protocols of the internet. In Rushkoff's Tolkien-esque, Mordor-like vision of corporatism, that simply shouldn't have been permitted.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">At the beginning and the end of this book, Rushkoff evokes what's wrong and what's right about the community values of his own upstate New York neighbourhood. With children and wife in tow, the writer has been clearly moved to celebrate the immediate, the friendly, and the love-driven, from the place where he lives and nurtures. No argument there. But such bucolia can't justify Rushkoff's gross misreading of the societal structures of the 21st century. It's an ultimately disempowering account, which makes you feel (wrongly) like a deluded dupe for even trying to engage with current realities.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">To paraphrase our friends from Royston Vaisey, "universal people doing universal things" (meaning not just corporate elites, but daily cosmopolitans) have to be part of the progressive picture too.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Pat Kane is author of The Play Ethic (</span></font><a href="http://www.theplayethic.com/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">www.theplayethic.com</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">), and one half of Hue And Cry.</span></font></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 28 Jun 2009, at 02:36, Mechthild Schmidt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> Armin,<div><br><div>I made the comment in reference to the notion of play as (quote Davin:) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">"distinct from "ordinary life" (Huizinga), and that it constitutes an "occasion of pure waste" (Caillois)" </span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">... as not pure waste but quite opposite: an ideal state of mind to achieve in the balance of ratio and emotion</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> in their search for truth, beauty, art (in context of Schiller's admiration for Ancient Greek culture);</span></span></div><div>such 'play' as an artist lost in their work, a writer, a philosopher - different from 'play' as in gambling (Glücksspiel).</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Best,</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Mechthild Schmidt</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><br></span></font></div></span></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Armin B. Wagner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Am 26.06.2009 um 17:15 schrieb Mechthild Schmidt:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is this an inappropriate response of a lurker who enjoys the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">conversations but never finds the time herself to contribute? The <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thought crossed my mind. But here is my 'Twitter' comment on play-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">labour (The footnote alone exceeded Twitter - apology for the trim)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Go dance. Empty your mind. Read Schiller[1] on Play and Truth. Go <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dance.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[1] Friedrich Schiller: Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reclam Nr.8994 [2] 1977, 14. Brief</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>From the 15th letter:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"But perhaps the objection has for some time occurred to you, Is not <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the beautiful degraded by this, that it is made a mere play? and is it <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">not reduced to the level of frivolous objects which have for ages <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">passed under that name?"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[...]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"...we must not indeed think of the plays that are in vogue in real <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">life, and which commonly refer only to his material state. But in real <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">life we should also seek in vain for the beauty of which we are here <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">speaking."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[...]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Reason also utters the decision that man shall *only play* with <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">beauty, and he shall *only play with beauty*."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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