Lefty friends think capitalism is why they can't play
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"Play" as a concept is well understood, and continually done by adults.
"building a fort in the woods and playing with sticks" is infantile. The reason children have to play like that is because we don't want to give them weapons to accidentally hurt themselves with. Adults play by having full-armor sword battles, building fucking trebuchets, and re-enacting large scale battles. Adult play is more serious, and entertaining.
When you grow up, Puff The Magic Dragon can't come with you. You do have to stop goofing around in your own head and work on building a life and future for your family and community. Puff can't come with you because he is not an adult construct. He is a projected concept of your feelings and fantasies that is used to compartmentalize your feelings in a digestible format for you as a child to make sense of how and what you feel.
The longer you stay with Puff, the longer you have kept your feelings compartmentalized, and are unable to integrate them into your sense of self. Puff must go away, so that you may live.
That's one of the problems with acting and various arts, you still need puff in your life to do your job well. How do you mix it correctly? That's why so many lefties fall for Socialists ideas, the politics sound adult enough to hide in.
If they were behaving like individuated adults, we wouldn't need to worry because these lessons would be second nature.
Instead they intentionally infantalize people to control and destroy them.
You just described the arts scene in most areas. Heck, I could point out engineering and science departments that get this same treatment.