2. This line from Finite and Infinite Games: "The issue here is not whether self-veiling can be avoided, or even should be avoided. Indeed, no finite play is possible without it. The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask." I read your point around folks who fit in too long as forgetting they're wearing a mask, and those who refuse to ever fit in as refusing to wear the mask at all ("defensively weird"). The enlightened balance is to sometimes wear the mask, but knowingly.
And after a while you become absolutely deranged and unrecognizable :) https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/08/18/the-fool/
I love this post!
Two things it brings to mind:
1. This post of the Secrets of the Picaresque. Feels like it lives in the same universe as yours. https://woodruff.substack.com/p/secrets-of-the-picaresque-44b
2. This line from Finite and Infinite Games: "The issue here is not whether self-veiling can be avoided, or even should be avoided. Indeed, no finite play is possible without it. The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask." I read your point around folks who fit in too long as forgetting they're wearing a mask, and those who refuse to ever fit in as refusing to wear the mask at all ("defensively weird"). The enlightened balance is to sometimes wear the mask, but knowingly.