Is there an equivalent to “the purpose of a system is what it does” for (meta)games/politics/coordination? 

I get that these are encapsulated by the idom, but looking for something that highlights the human side over the procedural/mechanistic one.

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“Only that which can change can continue”…a quote from James P. Carse in Finite & Infinite Games. 

Coordination is an infinite game filled with enumerable finite games. This is the kind of language and dynamics the likes of Gandhi and Obama were well-versed in