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So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is in line with the narratives of the people around me, I can convince myself that my life is meaningful, and find happiness in that conviction. This is quite a depressing conclusion. Does happiness really depend on self-delusion?
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
While the Rhine model emphasizes certain obligations of economic institutions to the polity, the Anglo-American model stresses the state bureaucracy’s subordination to the economy, and thus is willing to loosen the safety net provided by government.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
In creating a notion of dominium, then, and thus creating the modern principle of absolute private property, what Roman jurists were doing first of all was taking a principle of domestic authority, of absolute power over people, defining some of those people (slaves) as things, and then extending the logic that originally applied to slaves to geese, chariots, barns, jewelry boxes, and so forth—that is, to every other sort of thing that the law had anything to do with.
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