The Morning After

God bless Radiolab… blowing my mind about Games… and sports.

They have this mucky-muck on the show talking about 3 year olds… and how they are pure improv.  Just making shit up and being in a constant state of invention.  Being the parent of a 3 year old, I love it.  I laugh dozens of times a day because of the weirdness that comes out of Madelyn’s mouth.

By 6 years old… kids are all about games with rules.  Playing tag and someone is “it” and when you get tagged… then you’re “it.”  Basically mimicking our lame life of laws and rules and signs and all that bullshit.

Now the mucky-muck says the best games, the ones we love and that stick around, are the ones that skirt between imagination and rules.

Crazy right?

So then they get going about Chess.  And how mathematically there are a bunch of moves that have a pretty standard series of actions and reactions.  But in chess… the players battle and can move past these moves till they get to a chess position where they are in a unique place.  Where the series of moves from here on out are not part of any pre-determined pattern.  This place is called the “novelty.”  When the chess game hits this point… the players are in a state of free form and imagination.

So Crazy right?

Cypress Hill – “Checkmate”

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Go with yourself.