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art, on the other hand, is not a reaction but a profound
reappraisal of a complex cultural state. Jean Genet’s The
Balcony appeals to some people as a shatteringly logical
appraisal of mankind’s madness in its orgy of self-destruction.
Genet offers a brothel enveloped by the holocaust of war and
revolution as an inclusive image of human life. It would be easy
to argue that Genet is hysterical, and that football offers a
more serious criticism of life than he does. Seen as live models
of complex social situations, games may lack moral
earnestness, it has to be admitted. Perhaps there is, just for
this reason, a desperate need for games in a highly specialized
industrial culture, since they are the only form of art accessible
to many minds. Real interplay is reduced to nothing in a
specialist world of delegated tasks and fragmented jobs. Some
backward or tribal societies suddenly translated into industrial
and specialist forms of mechanization cannot easily devise the