Playing Minecraft is praxis.
I'm currently playing Minecraft and was thinking more about the forever world concept I've talked about before.
Forever worlds have historical value, are a documentation of your state of mind at various points in your life. I said in a previous blog post that the concept of a forever world doesn't just apply to your neverending Minecraft world, but to any life-long project that you slowly build upon with new ideas.
Building on old foundations is easier than ripping everything apart and starting over, and produces a richer result spiritually. If you have something already, it's better to comb through and edit it than completely start anew, because by starting anew, you are creating work for yourself that has already been done.
If you've ever played Minecraft before and tried to keep starting new worlds, you're probably familiar with the concept of starting new worlds and stopping 2 weeks after you start. This is fundamentally an idealist way of playing the game.
"The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of more recent philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being.... The answers which the philosophers gave to this question split them into two great camps. Those who asserted the primacy of spirit to nature... comprised the camp of idealism. The others, who regarded nature as primary, belong to the various schools of materialism." - Fredrick Engels.
This quote might be confusing so let's break it down. Engels is trying to define idealism versus materialism.
Idealism is when you assert that ideas determine truth, or can explain the material world, and through that finding of truth through ideas, we can change the world to make it conform better to truth.
Materialism is the idea that truth has to be found in our interaction with nature. Through interaction with the world, through changing it, through trying things out, we find true ideas and can develop theory.
When we comb through and build upon our forever world in Minecraft, or when we add to our forever journal, or when we put a poster on our bedroom wall, or when we develop a story; we are doing praxis. Through this praxis, we develop ourselves spritually and create history: history that holds value that we can look back on and be proud of; this history reflects who we are.
And that is how we change the world.