The Fable of the Bees
In Our Time: History
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Manderville's Theory of the Superigo
Froud's theory about how we socialize ourselves works very much like freud's theory of the superigo. What we want is to get on good terms with this other, this external view of us which becomes our own view of ourselves. Darwin red mandevile and appreciaton. And they both appreciate this thing about how some kind of rational order can emerge even when the agents aren't trying to be rational. Even though none of the bees have this intention of creating a grand hive. They are just trying to do whatever their instincts drive them to do. And that, and that has a kind ofrational order that comes out of nature itself.
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