Where can I bring my camera in public without looking like a moron?

Just as the titles of winners are worthless unless they are visible to others, there is a kind of antititle that attaches to invisibility. To the degree that we are invisible we have a past that has condemned us to oblivion. It is as though we have somehow been overlooked, even forgotten, by our chosen audience. If it is the winners who are presently visible, it is the losers who are invisibly past.

As we enter into finite play - not playfully, but seriously - we come before an audience conscious that we bear the antititles of invisibility. We feel the need, therefore, to prove to them that we are not what we think they think we are, or more precisely, that we were not who we think the audience thinks we are. ... unless we believe we actually are the losers the audience sees us to be, we will not have the necessary desire to win.

The more negatively we assess ourselves, the more we strive to reverse the negative judgment of others. The outcome brings the contradiction to perfection: by proving to the audience that they were wrong, we prove to ourselves that the audience was right.

The more we are recognized as winners, the more we know ourselves to be losers. ... Titles must be defended by new contests. ... the visibility of our victories only tightens the grip of the failures in our invisible past.

- James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games