> To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.
(Or at least wants to believe.)
I do that, sometimes, quite quite consciously and even intentionally. In SF circles, it's called "suspension of disbelief".
> To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.
(Or at least wants to believe.)
I do that, sometimes, quite quite consciously and even intentionally. In SF circles, it's called "suspension of disbelief".