Another definition of philosophy:

Philosophy is breaking your brain.

I mean this in both the immediate sense, where one is rendered broken in terms of one's native understanding, and the smoothly functioning, naive participation in society it undergirds; Socrates was broken, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche were definitely broken; Diogenes the cynic was broken (perhaps, the most broken of all...) Philosophers don't work like they're supposed to, and despite possessing a lot of brain power, will, and usually a privileged upbringing, they amount to little. And their own understanding of success and failure is radically different, so as to even preclude much resemblance to a worldly standard.

But they are also "broken" in a specialized sense that is found within the community of Magic: The Gathering players. Something is "broken" if it is so powerful that it distorts the flow of a game to such an extent that the game ceases to really resemble a game at all, and instead hinges entirely on luck--on who draws the most broken cards in the beginning, or even just who is lucky enough to go first and pulls off a combo that precludes their opponent even getting a turn! A card in magic can be broken on its own: for instance, Black Lotus is so powerful compared to its cost that it borders on being broken and almost any player with any remotely competitive deck who draws a lotus in his hand will possess an almost insurmountable advantage over his opponent who doesn't. But, more often, a card is broken in specific combinations. The archetypal example is the combination of "donate" and "Illusions of Grandeur," neither one of which is particularly powerful on their own, but which together make a deck that frequently can win on the first turn.

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The broken philosopher takes words and concepts from every day life, and then "makes them go on holiday;" that is, he deterritorializes them from their native milieu, and creates novel combinations that, within the certain "finite games" that characterize the various social discourses of his society, quickly annihilate all play, and make a mockery of the games that they were ripped from. And, just like with magic, these combinations are often banned or restricted--but not before they wreck havoc. Socratic questioning was broken in this sense--perhaps more broken than anything before or since. The Athenian had no defense against it, and it made a blatant mockery of his life. It must have seemed, when speaking with Socrates, that his broken game was opening them up to an abyss --and in that abyss Socrates had a vision of rules and powers over existence that might have evened seemed quite wicked to the Athenian, though by now they are commonsensical.

What is the purpose of this? It can be all kinds of things: the Sophists, for instance, found a way to make money doing nothing--which for many is a kind of holy grail. It could be that Socrates just liked fucking with people. But there is also the possibility of using philosophy to territorialize people into new forms of life, out an ethical or religious dimension. Out of this elusive concept "infinite play." this may also be the "creation of new values."