Eric Berne makes the argument that the reason we play games is to avoid unstructured time. ‘Games’ and ‘pastimes’ are how we get through that space that exists between 'waking up in the morning' and 'going back to sleep last...
Whenever we buy into some version of reality that excludes all other versions then what we end up with is the Nullity, and this turns out to be very bad news for us. This turns out to be the worst...