How to Join the Playing God According to Johan Huizinga

You can force people to line up and work, but you cannot force people to play.

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Is it possible to predict if a political regime will crumble? Of course, sooner or later, they all crumble — history holds a telling testimony to that. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian and cultural theorist, noticed a strange tendency — in a totalitarian regime, people stop playing. They march.

In 193…