everyone wants to roleplay but no one got the guts to erp bc theyre too irony poisoned. SAD! cringe culture still has its claws on the youth, the elderly, and the INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT. ANTI-LARPING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES HAVE BEEN A DISASTER FOR PLAY ACROSS THE GLOBE. The People tm want an outlet to play with the imagined roles of real life such as the oppressed and the oppressor, similar to how bourgeois parenting encourages roles like jobs and being a mother but have no outlet to imagine said social roles besides listening to the disaffected parties. Theres a reason listening doesnt work and we have the saying "walk a mile in their shoes" because we must encourage literally taking in the viewpoint of said perspective by ACTING ON IT AKA LARPING AS SAID PERSPECTIVE. Porkie culture has degraded play to fit around the social reproduction most fitting to its ideology when play should be expanded!! When it should be expanded such that Play should be a liberatory project wherein the Playmates can literally act out supposed transgressive and illegitimate fantasies such to gain knowledge of said experiences. Play should be exaggerated and imagined not in the pursuit of truth but to help discover truth and imagine scenarios. What the fuck are you talking about you may be wondering. Play as
PRAXIS should be about self-discovery of various philosophies, perspectives, lives, and ideologies to encourage imagining people to think about the perspective of said life they are LARPING as. It should not be that children and humans should only play the good guys. I in fact argue its negation in that they should larp as racists, bigots, fascists and the like to encourage thinking about how a person could exist in said societal entanglements and map out how a person would act. You see a castrated and gross approximation of this play in the internet edginess you see everywhere and this is in fact a sort of LARP, a type of play. However this dedication to authenticness is the exact limiter on play that lets people connect and think in a wider fashion, rather than be spooked by their True Self, if such a thing can exist(it doesnt). Play and larping should cover the inauthentic, the mysterious, the disgusting and depraved just for the sake of exploring said mysteries and even then for the sake of it if utilitarian "proper" functioning that I was initially envisioning, might accidentally strangle this concept of Play to again be subordinated to shap
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