Focus Passage Week 5

Eschaton (321-342).

This is one of IJ's most interesting passages in my opinion. First because I find the idea of bright children creating this kind of highly convoluted, complex game interesting and even somehow charming, like reading about Calvin playing Calvinball. Of course the difference between Calvinball and Esachton is the level of realism and structure which Eschaton posesses, and in this particular juxtoposition of choas v. order, some aspects of Eschaton become more salient. The children of ETA have created a game much like their own lives which center on competition: strategy, ruthlessness, competition, rigidity.

Is Eschaton making a point about professional sports, or the road thereto? Is the game functioning as a microcosm of global competition and warfare?