The mimetics of behavior
A young Shevek and his friends are uncertain of how to make a “real” prison and grasp at approximations of one as they play at incarcerating one another. The scenario plays similar to the Standford experiment.
As some of the play guardians started to display masochistic behavior, Shevek noticed:
"At first we were playing a game, but now the game plays us."
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One of the best written novels. It is SF because it has ships and stuff. But a philosophical book from start to finish.
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