He argues that games become socially central in patriarchal status orders where rank is zero-sum, whereas older matriarchal societies were more cooperative and oriented toward balance and harmony.
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Jiang says games are not humanity's permanent natural state; they dominate the present order but did not dominate the distant past and may not dominate the future.
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