The social game has a deeper double meaning-that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society." (Georg Simmel)

The social game has a deeper double meaning-that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society."

Georg Simmel

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