“Oddly enough, in games there is a singular triangle: it’s freedom, barriers and purposes. You increase somebody’s freedom, you increase his barriers and purposes. You increase his barriers, you increase his freedom and purposes. You increase his purposes, and you increase his freedom and barriers. And that’s the wildest looking thing you ever studied.
“I’m going to have to ask you to look that over and find enough examples to satisfy yourself that a relationship does exist. Because it looks absolutely mad that if we put a nine-o’clock curfew on the streets of this city that people would have more freedom. See, you’ll just have to walk your way through the morass of it because it’s true. This is the wildest thing you ever saw.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Auditing Techniques: Games Conditions delivered on 1 February 1957. This can be found in the 16th American ACC lectures. Track 14.
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