Mass Pillow Fight

SAN FRANCISCO / Hundreds attend mass pillow fight Yeah. Apparently, that's what happened all right. Hundreds of people. With pillows. It's kinda wonderful and everything with the spontaneity and surprise and hitting. But I dunno, I think maybe helmets with face guards might be required to make the event more fun for the hit-upon, both young and old. I guess the memory of a pillow fight with my sister 55 years ago, and the subsesquent bloody nose, still stains my affection for games that involve whacking people with anything.

Odd, though, when you think how central the idea of "Soft War" was to the founding of the New Games, uh, Foundation. Googling for Soft War, I came across this moment of clarity from "Kellee: "Soft War was a way of allowing people to relieve tension by realizing that it was okay to release primal energy into the air without anybody getting hurt. But, if both sides agree that physically hurting each other is okay, then maybe they still get away without hurting in other ways...Because sometimes, we are still animals that pretend to be civilized."





Thanks for the find, Noise