Louisa Thomas
speaker
56 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Feb
Louisa Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And where does this come to a head?
It comes to a head in a croquet game.
There are no rules in this croquet game.
It's completely lawless.
The queen is going off with her head.
It's horrible.
And that's where Alice just loses her mind.
But she's learning a couple things.
One is that the rules need to be fair.
They need to be consistent.
What would a proper croquet game look like?
Yeah, exactly.
The thing is that life is more like the croquet game with the flamingo as a mallet and the hedgehog as a ball.
We have to figure out some way of making our way through this totally arbitrary and capricious world.
Sports are really fun, but to me, they're a place where we basically learn to live with arbitrary rules.
They teach us how to tolerate these injustices and give us a framework for working them out and let us practice dealing with disappointment or experiencing success or working together.
Yeah, but I mean, I think that sports are, when done well, are practice for society.
Maybe done better.
Maybe it's just a way of living, a way of being in the world.
It doesn't have to be a simulacrum, right?
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