On Jan 21, 2008 7:23 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 7:21 PM, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > game. (n) A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or with > > others, for the purpose of entertainment. > > > > There's more than one dictionary. > > Then a poker tournament is not a game, as the purpose there is to > redistribute wealth. Consider also Robert Jordan's "game of houses", > wherein noble families vie for power.
And then there are those who would contend that the purpose of democracy is to keep the bourgeois entertained (or at least subdued), so as not to interfere with the oligarchy wielding the actual power. -root
