[Independent Research During Golden Week (Part 5)] The Spring of Learning (Knowledge and Play)
Playing hooky feels like spring, doesn't it?
How you play is how you live.
Bring outdoor play into your life.
A playful spirit is within everyone.
Dumplings over flowers.
Play over meals.
Nature teaches us that play has its seasons, too.
What it means to be absorbed.
It means getting dirty.
In truth, you don't need money for adult play either.
Relearning how to play in ways that don't go as planned.
Everyone keeps their work promises.
I feel sad for people who break their play promises so easily.
That nameless thing that wells up in your chest.
That question that makes you want to throw up.
That curiosity that makes you unable to sit still.
Those are the things that get released through play.
Humans and puppies are probably the same in that regard.
Those who play to their heart's content are the ones who can find richness.
You will come to know both thirst and nourishment.
Play outside.
Play on the road.
Play in the park.
Play in the vacant lot.
Even if you are chased away, keep playing.
Playgrounds disappear quickly.
But you will find new ones just as quickly.
Play as you like.
Play here and now.
So, where will you play?
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The text is Huizinga's 'Homo Ludens'.
I am reaffirming how important digressions are.
The culture that views 'miscellaneous' as a negative is coming to an end.
Let us view the miscellaneous as a kind of breadth, and consider it a creative system from which new intellectual developments arise.
In other words,
'Complex systems'.
Right?
For example, contemporary music has moved away from the seven-note scale system of the previous century,
"Noise"
We have become enriched by incorporating sounds that were previously excluded as "noise."
From "noise" to "trivia" and "small talk."
In other words, it is precisely within these digressions that there lies the potential to break down existing systems of "knowledge" and open up new perspectives.
"Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (Kodansha Academic Library) by Bronisław Malinowski, translated by Yoshiro Masuda
This book discusses the "Kula," a system of gift exchange and ceremonial voyaging in the Trobriand Islands that Malinowski studied.
It involves not just the mere exchange of goods, but the exchange of myths.
This ritual, which evokes the birth of poetry and theater, is truly magnificent and beautiful.
Reading this book, anyone cannot help but think about the origins of today's culture.
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