The one must exist alongside the other - and with each other, among each other. And that only works if both "currents" manage to interact with each other without judgement.

I believe that games, life, and art tend to have microcosm/macrocosm relationships with each other. Sometimes breaking the norms/expectations leads to problems, sometimes it's exploring beyond the settled confines (an unorthodox new strategy in a game that leads to a new dynamic, an artwork that subverts expectations to achieve something compelling, civil disobedience of an unjust law that leads to reform).