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Postmodernist Pinball Wizards
Pinball invokes the body. It’s “tactile.” Video games, not so much. I think there’s a pinball renaissance coming.
“He Stands Like a Statue/Becomes Part of the Machine”
That lyric from The Who’s righteous (if overplayed) song summarizes the point of this very good piece at Salon.
True effort, including mental, always includes the body. It’s Michael Polanyi’s “tactic mode.” If we are going to escape the labyrinthine prison constructed by the left hemisphere and overseen by our gnostic prison guards, we need more tactile pursuits that inherently reject Cartesian dualism (that poison that wholly separates mind and body) and the entire modern edifice constructed on it.
Fortunately, I believe such tactile pursuits are becoming, and will continue to become, more and more popular. If tactile pursuits are the highest pursuits, we will yearn for and find them and do them.
Prediction: A pinball renaissance is coming. And based on this essay, it might already be here.
“Plays by intuition”
