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The essence of Evokation
Okay, ever since I saw Jane McGonigal's speech on gaming innovation, I've been slowly getting amped up about this "game." So what evoked (terrible wordplay) a reaction in me was a simple phrase: What you have matters more than what you lack. Zuckerman uses the example of a bicycle being important before worrying about a car. A laptop made from old gaming parts can be as effective a tool as the latest gadgetry with bloated features. Doing more with less is far more satisfying than throwing money at a problem and hoping for joy and peace at night.
Evoke's very concept echoes this point for me. Many of us are gamers, computer nerds, comic geeks, the people whom the world has laughed at for their inability to make a change directly, with brute force. This is wasteful of our resources, a squandering of abilities so great it depresses the soul. The celebrities have money, the politicians have power, the suits have their manipulations. We have laptops. We have technological know-how. College students have a voice. Use it.
Not to say this is a job only for the young. At risk of sounding trite, all the people need to work together as one for the sake of social innovation. Anyone can, and will, attempt to destroy the status quo. And as we all know, the status is not quo. Ha. References aside, we have to understand our limitations, so we can utterly destroy them. Ignore the guy in the muscle car and keeping walking. Soon, what you don't have will become an advantage of experience, strength, and determination. I'm not saying use your best abilities. The opposite; If you exercise the weakest part of your mental arsenal, no matter how little resources are given the valued outcome will be even greater.
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