Ebook: To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

Intro; CONTENTS; Foreword: What is it to Live?; Preface; 1. The Palace's Night of Red and Gold: On the Entry of France into the Tertiary Society; 2. Chaos as Imposture, Self-Regulation as Festive Neoconservatism; 3. Hobbes's Robinson-Particles: Political Arithmetic and Mercantile Empiricism; 4. The Average Man as Statistical Degradation of the Ordinary Man; 5. Democracy as Political Market, or: From Market Democracy to Thermocracy; 6. Market Democracy will be Fluid or will not be at all: Fluid Nomads and Viscous Losers; 7. Robinsons on Wheels and Petronomads;A startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society and a burlesque satire of its middle-class celebrants.