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Asortymentna kimnata, Sichovyh Striltsiv 15, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Playing with Safety: No duality, only duality
The duality of good and evil does not work (any more). It is a convenient tool for storytellers who seek to convey simple truths by generalizing, simplifying, and rejecting the nuances that make up reality.
The duality of game and reality does not work either. While children's games recreate the world with genuine sincerity and a sense of truth, adult life is filled with rituals, masking, and role-playing.
When we try to face our fears, we give them a gambling form. Virtual reality fills in the gaps of the "real" by irreversibly intertwining with it. We don't stop playing when we grow up; quite the opposite.
The constantly present past and unclear future in the endlessly stretched present make a dual view of time impossible. The only thing left to us is a sense of guilt. And games.
The duality does not work (any more).