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# LARPing, Reality, and Fraud
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/larping-reality-and-fraud/
- Published: 2023-06-19T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-19T14:34:32.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: The Hemisphere Hypothesis, Briefly

This nascent essay needs work, but it's a decent blog post. 

The essay could take a few directions. 

E.g., Fantasy role-playing is fun, but now take your character into the real world. You're Kick-Ass, coming to beat that inner-city thug, only to find yourself on the cusp of getting throttled by him and his gang because, well, you're *not* a superhero. You're a white suburbanite who can't hang with hardened criminals from the hood. You're LARPing at playing a superhero, and you better leave that superhero where he belongs: in the fictional, play regions of your mind.

E.g., Thomas Sowell might be the best living public intellectual who adamantly refuses to let abstract ideals beat reality. (I've been working on a Sowell-Hemisphere essay for a year now . . . just so much to condense/capture . . . some day, some day.)

E.g., [The essayist of that *Atlantic* piece is a reincarnation of Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur waxing about Pristine Nature, and that Twitter respondent is D.H. Lawrence](https://thedailyeudemon.com/hector-st-john-de-crev/). 

[The Left Hemisphere LarpsThe response that I featured in yesterday’s post used the word “LARPing.” I’m embarrassed to admit: I didn’t know what it means. Fortunately, I have a Google machine (well, I’ve started using the Perplexity machine . . . an incredible AI tool recommended at my annual estate law conference last month). Per Perplexity:![](https://thedailyeudemon.com/favicon.ico)The Daily EudemonEric Scheske![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1628821759220-6062be946967?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDV8fGZpdmUlMjBwb2ludHN8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzE4ODAxNjUwfDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=2000)](https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-left-hemisphere-larps/)