you are an actor on a stage and you are in the role of Hamlet, playing that role has nothing in common with having a job, a 9-to-5 job. It means putting on an audience. Role-playing means a put-on. Instead of getting a repetitive hardware sort of performing area to work in, you have to learn how to put on your audience in such a way that you become important to them. Role-players, let’s see, where would one begin to explain role-playing in everyday life?

Forsdale: Peace Corps volunteers are role-players?

McLuhan: Yes. Yes. Children playing are all playing in roles. Role-playing is literally playing, not working. And at the speed of light, play becomes the major meaning of human activity. Now play, there’s a wonderful book on the subject