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user-inactivated  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior -- changed how I thought. There's a book review.





kleinbl00  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Compare it to Lorenz - 'cuz I done read On Aggression and found it pretty interesting.

user-inactivated  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't read that but Lorenz' argument looks like a subset, I'll check it out sometime.

JakobVirgil  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know I gots Veblen on the brain but this is pretty much the thesis of TotLC although Thorstien calls in the emulative impulse because he is that kind of guy. (and is from 1857)

user-inactivated  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I absolutely need to read that, Leisure Class.

JakobVirgil  ·  3694 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a read