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the formal battle but the sneak raid or stealthy ambush
in which not only men but women and children are
mercilessly slaughtered. . . .
This perpetual bloodshed is carried on for none of
the usual reasons for waging war. No territory is won or
lost; no goods or prisoners seized. . . . They fight because
they enthusiastically enjoy it, because it is to them a vital
function of the complete man, and because they feel they
must satisfy the ghosts of slain companions.
These people, in short, detect in these games a kind of
model of the universe, in whose deadly gavotte they can
participate through the ritual of war games.
Games are dramatic models of our psychological lives