In the second podcast of the mini-backlog, I go way down the geek rabbit hole. Basically, the premise is this: at some point, the President of the United States will be someone who plays videogames.
And, in wondering whether we can take a person in power seriously if they actively enjoy the act of play, and why that idea seems like such a hard sell, I realized we've already got a perfect example of an authority figure who has no problem playing make-believe in front of his subordinates (and one who is somewhat of a stick in the mud at that): Captain Jean Luc Picard. Man in power who shifts seamlessly from dress-up on the holodeck to saving the world from space bugs (or, more frequently, to jabbering on some diplomatic mission).
Delusional nerd fantasy or inevitable paradigm?
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