This work's sixth chapter argues that dogs are valued for their "unquestioning subservience," while its last chapter criticizes "esoteric knowledge" and the survival of archaic rituals in academia.
This work's sixth chapter argues that dogs are valued for their "unquestioning subservience," while its last chapter criticizes "esoteric knowledge" and the survival of archaic rituals in academia. Another chapter analyzes the conservation of primitive traits like the belief in luck and the predatory instinct, a process which prevents society from evolving past wasteful barbarism. The second chapter describes the emergence of the title institution, which leads to the achievement of status through pecuniary emulation. Best known for analyzing the motivation behind wasteful and ostentatious displays of wealth, or "conspicuous consumption," FTP, identify this 1899 work by Thorstein Veblen.
This work's sixth chapter argues that dogs are valued for their "unquestioning subservience," while its last chapter criticizes "esoteric knowledge" and the survival of archaic rituals in academia.
The {Theory of the Leisure Class}