Books
- Civilization and its Discontents | Sigmund Freud
- You must delay animal instincts to live in a society. Shut down your dumb id.
- Totem and Taboo | Sigmund Freud
- You want to dissociate from things that make you uncomfy. Leaving space for nuance makes it so you don’t villianize strangers.
- Also Eugen Bleuler sucks so hard, but also coined the term autism.
- New Lives for Old | Margaret Mead
- After an unprecedented change happens, you can’t be what you were before, but you can remember some of the important things.
- The Sense of Beauty | George Santayana
- Beauty is pleasure personified. But do not discount that future pleasure may exist if you aren’t having a perfect time now.
- Also the term “Wretched Potboiler”