Social Animal David Brooks Pdf Free 73
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Contrary to popular thought, we are not primarily self-contained individuals, but rather we emerge out of our relationships. None of us are self-made. We are deeply interpenetrated with one another. We are social animals from birth. Brook writes:
DB:More often than not, wejust don't think about it, because it comes unconsciously and naturally to us.But the book is called The Social Animalbecause we are social animals, not rational animals. We are built to connectwith each other, and most of what we do inside is about understanding thoseconnections.
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And the third insight is that we're not primarily self-contained individuals.We're social animals, not rational animals.We emerge out of relationships,and we are deeply interpenetrated, one with another.And so when we see another person,we reenact in our own minds what we see in their minds.When we watch a car chase in a movie,it's almost as if we are subtly having a car chase.When we watch pornography,it's a little like having sex,though probably not as good.And we see this when lovers walk down the street,when a crowd in Egypt or Tunisia gets caught up in an emotional contagion,the deep interpenetration.And this revolution in who we are gives us a different way of seeing, I think, politics,a different way, most importantly,of seeing human capital.