benlehman

I want to write an essay. I want to write an essay about role-playing games. It would be about how, in a media saturated age where everything tells us that entertainment should be expensive and done by pretty people, that tells us that our creativity is for shit, that we are by analogy for shit, and that even community needs a dollar sign, people are making their own fun. This isn't an idle passtime. What I mean by entertainment could also be called community or ritual or even, maybe, mysticism. It's something we need, as animals. It's making our own fun like making our own salt.

I want it to be anarchist, punk rock, beat poetry, early christian, hippy, hip-hop and everything else that has ever been awesome. I want it to be about radical fun, radical love, and radical people.

I want one of the lines to be "It's about creating community as much as it is about destroying society."

That's what I want today.