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Oh. You mean anarchism?

Yep. That's why we need to learn about anarchism: to practice designing and playing different societal games from the norm.

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I thought this article might be about (and think it should've been about) games like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)

...but especially Nomic, which has apparently been played online since the 1990s.

Nomic is partial inspiration for the design-your-own-religion religion I've defined as Iggnnominism. I consider myself to be a monastic practitioner, an Iggnnomic abbottess (gender-neutral monastic steward of a temple or temples).

It's basically acknowledging life as a Nomic and everyone's got their own version going.

> Nomic

I encourage everyone to play a round of Dvorak[0] at least once. I fondly remember losing my first game shortly after a rule was created that barred me, personally, from speaking. The subterfuge is palpable.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_(game)

That's what communes were historically used for. Examples include the Paris commune, and Josiah Warren's various experiments [1]. I also just discovered this wiki article while trying to remember another example (it was Freetown Christiania), which is pretty cool: [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren#Cincinnati_and_U...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities

I'm wanting to add one to the second link, tentatively called THE NORTH POLE or maybe by a name that lists every core value and building of the community in the name so people can know exactly what they're getting into from just the name.

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