“The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."” PeopleWorldBornModernLandMy FamilyWealthyModern World Author:Ian Bogost
“Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.” IfsWorldFeelsIdeasWholeFeelingsProblemFacesValuesTurnsAsksGivenInterestingDemandSatisfactionTricksContentmentWhat IfGratificationFlipHow You FeelFace Value Author:Ian Bogost
“Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.” WorldPlayProcessPleasureDefinedRelatedExperimentation Author:Ian Bogost
“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.” WorldIdeasPlayWholeNaturalFindingsLimitationConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.” WorldWayWantFirstsMeanStepsWhat You WantWillingnessFrankFirst Steps Author:Ian Bogost
“We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?” ThinkingWorldHas BeensDreamCan DoInterestingImagineEnormousImagine ThatBent Author:Ian Bogost
“We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.” ThinkingWorldForceSubjects Author:Ian Bogost
“We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."” PeopleThinkingWorldRealSeemsJobsGivenStuffEnjoySituationCircumstancesStructureResponseStuckBoundariesAcknowledgeDoomedConstraints Author:Ian Bogost
“It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.” WorldFeelsStillsCan DoPreparedTinyCelebrateOutcomesRemarkableHelpfulBe PreparedTiny Things Author:Ian Bogost
“Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingMatterMomentsTodayMovingPathAliveImpactStriveContemporaryCarrieImmuneUrgencyLive For TodayHypotheticalNew Paths Author:Ian Bogost
