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Leviathan is the most frequently read book in the ivy league, and this is why the American establishment is a wretched hive of villiany and scum.
by akimball 5y ago
Leviathan is the most frequently read book in the ivy league, and this is why the American establishment is a wretched hive of villiany and scum.
- Herodotus38 5y agoCould you expand more on why that is? I have tried to read it but found it dry and stopped. Are there themes in it that you feel have created problems, what are they?
- akimball 5y agoOne problem is that Leviathan teaches that coordination problems must be solved by centralized force. Another problem is that it views society as competition for resources. The extremes of its rhetoric are a memetically potent drug, and turn exceptions into rules, which then become axioms in the minds of the susceptible privileged undergraduate population - axioms which then rationalize sociopathic patterns of abusive control perpetuated by the ruling elites. The populist reactions to these abuses are perhaps the most damaging aspect of the whole scenario as it is playing out today.
- Herodotus38 5y agoThanks! I might try to read it again and appreciate your thoughts.
- hilbert42 5y agoDoes that translate into 'Hobbes was a very bright bastard, so if you want get the 'good oil' on the matter then read him first' ? Reckon he's widely read elsewhere too - I'm definitely not one of them - so with others also in the 'know' then they may not have had such an advantage. Perhaps it was something else, something in their drinking water perhaps? ;-)
- mdp2021 5y agoIf reading X meant "being indoctrinated by X", humanity would have vanished early in history under tearing cognitive burden.