Book Review: Sadly, Porn
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Is Class Better Than Class?
Pawn doesn't hit any of the beats you'd expect in an anti corporate book. I think teach worries his readers would use an anti corporate message as a defence. For such an esoteric book, some of these sections feel pretty basic. The modern person wants to be special, not because they accomplished great stuff, but because specialness is just who they are. Brants tell them that this is true, and in they buy the brands. Brand because you deserve it, despite blaming ads and companies. Psychoanalytic factors lead to envy, lead to everyone hates everyone else, lead toeveryone demands to be ruled. Has a natural foil in the sort of socialists who talk about income in
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