The Culture: Peterson's "Playing At The World" Gets A Revision

The book that would end up causing a revolution from both above and below is getting a second edition.

As I mentioned years ago, this book and its follow-up (The Elusive Shift) are serious works of scholarly rigor. They aren't light reading; you need to change your approach to reading to get the most out of it.

In short, it's a small miracle that this is happening because we know all too well the general illiteracy of the Casual, the Tourist, the Brand Cultist, and especially Cargo Cultists. The original book found its audience, who then took what was therein and translated it into forms that the aforementioned would accept (even if it comes with a hefty side of disparagement of those who made it) in order to grease the wheels for Current Edition to become what it will be in the near future: a Mobile Trash app.

But it also found an audience of the old-timers and those dissatified with Sorcerers By The Sea, who used it to execute a long-term preservation and revitalization campaign that is now driven by the #BROSR and their concerted, persistent campaign to revive the Real Hobby, preserve it for future generations, and take the hobby down the road that the Boomers did not choose in the 1970s.

The original 2012 publication, two years before the original Gamergate, primed the pump for Jeffro Johnson's Appendix N book which would lead to the explosion of indie genre fiction and the #BROSR as both parties took from that book and began to first read the old masters in earnest and then to build anew from forgotten foundations.

From Secrets of Blackmoor to How To Win At D&D, from Cirsova Magazine to the entire explosion of indie novels and magazines in its wake, Peterson's tome primed the pump for the change in the hobby that we see now- good and ill alike.

The reason? Peterson, without intending to do so, cracked the Conventional Play Consensus by removing the past from the Memory Hole.

I am curious to see if the revision of this tome also indicates a change in the narrative, and if so in what direction. We'll see soon enough.