Interesting Read...
Read this today in Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson:
[The following passage is a dialogue between Cagliostro the magician, and Sandoz the lion tamer]
Cagliostro was alway carrying around a book called Homo Ludens in those days.
"Is that about faggots?" Sandoz asked him once.
Cagliostro laughed. "No," he said. "It's Latin. It means...uh, you know it's hard to translate...Man the Game Player, I suppose."
Sandoz grinned. "You can learn all about that just by watching the marks," he said. " I been a carny damn near twenty years now and I swear from the things I seen, you could sit down with a blackjack table and a sign saying 'THIS GAME IS CROOKED,' and half the marks would still sit down opposite you and try to beat you. A mark wants to lose," he concluded profoundly, almost with anger.
"No," Cagliostro said. "The mark wants to be hypnotized. He wants to enter the world of magic, with mirrors and blue smoke and shifting shapes, and he's willing to be swindled, just to have a glimpse of that world."
"Is that what that book says?" Sandoz asked.
"More or less," Cagliostro said. "In sociological jargon."