Yep, as long as that was clear from the excerpt, I just wasn't sureWhat do you want to unpick? something about rules emerge and stabilise as the game evolves, implicitly, a collaboratively written script where roles are assumed and tried out, and rewarded or punished without being stated
Before I had cover there was a worse jargon offender, plus someone guaranteed to engage re theory
The going along thing - I think about this a lot at work. In the charity sector especially there can be this very stifling culture of niceness that inhibits change and great work, the avoidance of negative feedback, the tolerance of shit. and I see parallels in psychedelic aesthetics, hippy slackness etc
Keynes talks a bit about how this makes good investing in the stock market. So here's your stock market tip @luka, straight from a b-o-o-k!As G.H. Mead has argued, when an individual considers taking a course of action, he is likely to hold off until he has imagined in his mind the consequence of his action for others involved, their likely response to this consequence, and the bearing of this response on his own designs. He then modifies his action so that it now incorporates that which he calculates will usefully modify the other's generated response. In effect, he adapts to the other's response before it has been called forth, and adapts in such a way that it never does have to be made.
A Keynesian beauty contest is one in which you don't try to pick the contestant you find most beautiful, but the one you think other people will find most beautiful. Obvious parallels here to fashion and pleasing people and choosing behavior by anticipating others' reactions
Keynes talks a bit about how this makes good investing in the stock market. So here's your stock market tip @luka, straight from a b-o-o-k!