Fun Is a Form of Abandonment, of Looseness and in Balance

It's a time of emergency measures and vast decrees of curbs on expression, behavior and even movement. Some people obey them in this spirit so they can be seen obeying them. Fun, with its little anarchies, is suspect. It's regarded as selfish, wasteful, perhaps unsanitary to some degree. How else to explain the mentality leaders who thought to combat a respiratory virus by dumping tons of sand from front end loaders into a seaside skate park? I asked a philosopher and critic, ivan coneli, what the sages have said about fun as i've defined it. And he said, classically, talk of the smiling embrace of danger. Is martial