5/20/2023 0 Comments Freud and civilization![]() ![]() Civilization is a deal we make with each other where we trade some of our freedom to obey our violent instincts in order to be free from one another’s violent instincts. Why are civilized people so miserable? Freud attributes some of our unhappiness to civilization itself, the way it hems in our vicious ape instincts. But as Louis CK puts it: “Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.” You would think, then, that we would be really happy. At the time Freud was writing, nature was well under control. I would have rather read Civilization And Its Discotheques.įreud begins with the observation that for most of human history, our happiness has been tied to our ability to control nature: to keep away predators and stinging instincts, to keep ourselves fed and sheltered, to alleviate pain and disease. None of them have been as difficult and off-putting as Freud. We have read some dense canonical European White Guys. ![]() Note-taking for Learning of Culture with Lisa Stulberg ![]()
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