Max Porter describes play as "Serious Evolutionary Magic".
No one knows why our brains grew so fast, many believe they grew to keep up with language.
This is what happened...
Early Humans, really early, Hominids really relaxing.
the Leader gets up and does some display, one of the Younger Ones makes the call
“threat from the air” the Leader jumps down alarmed, everyone is alert, the Young One laughs.
You are the Elder, what is your opinion?
On one hand the Young One has misused the alarm call, a very survival thing.
And this is no childplay,
the Leader is strangely exposed now,
the next moment matters. Of course if you laugh
and the Leader laughs
the development of abstract language will lead my tribe to the moon.
But you don’t know this, the infinite world of weak beats strong lacks the words ratification or specification, play has not yet found its language.
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