{"id":1331,"date":"2013-08-11T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2013-08-11T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:22:39","slug":"the-glass-bead-game-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"The Glass Bead Game (Revisited)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Hesse in the early 20th century wrote a novel, \u201cMagister Ludi\u201d about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Glass_Bead_Game\" target=\"_blank\">Glass Bead Game<\/a>. In light of postmodernist ideas, what if these were elements, subatomic particles, or types of aesthetic variables, or whatever, that could be played, like a game of checkers, to collaboratively (not competitively) create a world, or an aspect of the world? Consider this layout for the beginning set-up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/glassbeadgame813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"glassbeadgame813\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"glassbeadgame813\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/glassbeadgame813_thumb.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do each of these symbols suggest to you? How would you construct the meaning of your life or your world based on these \u201cunits\u201d of meaning? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Hesse in the early 20th century wrote a novel, \u201cMagister Ludi\u201d about the Glass Bead Game. In light of postmodernist ideas, what if these were elements, subatomic particles, or types of aesthetic variables, or whatever, that could be played, like a game of checkers, to collaboratively (not competitively) create a world, or an aspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-foolin","category-mind-spectrums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}