["we can do whatever we want."]

"we can do whatever we want."

in adopting and ultimately defending "kill gameplay" i think i lost sight of an earlier and more important revelation, which is that as people we really can do whatever we want. that's the important thing. to 'kill' 'gameplay' sounds to me like it's advocating the destruction of systems. it isn't, although i think that the destruction of systems is the natural consequence of the underlying philosophy.

to really embody "we can do whatever we want" is to ignore all these absurd outside forces that seem to get in the way and just do things when the desire is pure -- whatever that means. (i'm sure there's some no-true-scotsman-ing going on there.)

in short, here's the good stuff.

• do whatever you want.
• if you can't, figure out why you can't. make it possible to do whatever you want.
• do whatever you want.
• everything you want is inherently good because you want it.
• always become a better person. (this is the hardest and most contentious instruction.)

in order to help people, i think that it's of the utmost importance to allow people to do the above things better, and nothing else. specifically, a few skills and affordances and resources that can really make a difference in someone's life:

• being able to perceive what you want to do
• being able to perceive the quickest way to do what you want
• being able to perceive things that are not actually obstacles, in order to not expend energy on dismantling them
• being able to dismantle or circumvent obstacles with as little wasted energy as possible
• clear objective* feedback on the effects of their actions so that they can become a better person according to their own judgement
• self-acceptance

*objective feedback: "what you did made me sad." subjective feedback: "what you did was bad."