The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.
Johan HuizingaPlay is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan HuizingaRevolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Johan Huizinga