I want to rant on the issue of darkness. One could point out, what is it, this fascination with darkness going around, what is it up to? There is not much to say that the world we live in, does suggest certain dualism. There is no factual unity, as far as the matter goes. Everything is fundamentally divided or divisible. We have day, we have night. We have thrive, we have decay. Nightside - the dark - is archetypically associated with death, as opposed to the dayside. But it is the dayside, that reveals the differences, which under the Sun, could only by unified under the intellectual - noetic - standards. It is the darkness, that is a great unifier. The mind, belongs in the dark.

Death, is a shareholder of the reality we live in, so to say, there is no escape from the notion of death. It is only to be accepted. Death, is also associated with what goes on beyond the flesh and matter. Fascination with death, darkness and night, is ultimately a fascination with spirituality - as opposed to the natural, the visible, the obvious - with the "Kingdom of Heaven", as one could argue, as well as the mystery of why we are here, what we are here for, when is it that we are finally done with here. Flesh, could suggest we are done with here when our functional role in the purposes of life ends, but this is where doctrines such as Buddhism or Christianity arise, telling, unnecessarily.

There apparently goes more to life than just flesh and this is what the darkness is all about. It is about an attempt to answer certain fundamental questions. Why to do it? Because we are human, because to remain human, means more than just to sustain oneself physically. It means also to sustain oneself spiritually and there is another market, another infrastructure, another soil and another currency working towards that. There needs to be balance, naturally. But there does not need to be a neglection.

What do games and gaming - digital, physical or narrative, but all working the imagination - have to do with it? They are a communication tool in a philosophical dispute, that is ultimately meant to become a dispute with oneself.