This is just raising the stakes, burning the goat down will now be more prestigious.
After industrial civilization collapses, we will have this surviving tradition of unknown source where for a period of 1.5 moons around the solstice (3 weeks before to 3 weeks after, maybe Advent and Christmas if they still exist), there is a group competition that people engage in all over the world, of unknown source, but anthropologists suspect it came from the corner of the Great Continent with many peninsulas around a shallow sea.
The competition is between those who aim to build and defend a giant straw effigy of a goat, and people who aim to destroy one such goat.
The bigger and more fireproofed the goat, the more of an honor to burn it down. The more attempts on a goat, the more of an honor to build one that stands.
A perpetual battle between forming and de-forming. Extensive planning and physical efforts done and shared collectively. Straw, wood, nails, axes, and fire. No matter whether it stands or falls, a monument of our existence, and a celebration of life.
This is just raising the stakes, burning the goat down will now be more prestigious.
After industrial civilization collapses, we will have this surviving tradition of unknown source where for a period of 1.5 moons around the solstice (3 weeks before to 3 weeks after, maybe Advent and Christmas if they still exist), there is a group competition that people engage in all over the world, of unknown source, but anthropologists suspect it came from the corner of the Great Continent with many peninsulas around a shallow sea.
The competition is between those who aim to build and defend a giant straw effigy of a goat, and people who aim to destroy one such goat.
The bigger and more fireproofed the goat, the more of an honor to burn it down. The more attempts on a goat, the more of an honor to build one that stands.
A perpetual battle between forming and de-forming. Extensive planning and physical efforts done and shared collectively. Straw, wood, nails, axes, and fire. No matter whether it stands or falls, a monument of our existence, and a celebration of life.
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Right. Dragging them away or raising the alarm is Defending The Goat, invoking the legal system is dubious but still technically a defense.
The objective is the goat, not the other team. You become the G.O.A.T. by getting their goat.