The Laws of Human Nature

By Greene.

Book .

• The Cultural Revolution in China - a groupthink experiment that went fubar at a scale much larger than the Lord of the Flies
• Reality group - a herd, that unlike normal, brings the group to a higher level
• Purpose chapter - "transcendence on the cheap"
• Coco Chanel - Know when to disappear. Iconoclast who made people desire something progressive. Androgenous clothing to free women. Open source fashion designs. Point: desire comes from something you can't have
• Examine character. Hughes Aircraft. Take off the masks. Tough experience, or being under pressure, doffs the masks.
• Defusing defenses. Confirm peoples' self opinion. Lyndon B Johnson did it.
• Anton Chekhov - . Attitude. Sakhalin Island. It's a Wonderful Life. Anton got out of himself, by reforming himself and helping others. Meaning. Sakhalin Island.
  • Postmodern is never too ambitious or optimistic
  • How to view others - don't take others' fuss personally. They are projecting.
• Dark Side - Nixon. Also the Extreme Entrepreneur like Michael Jackson who reverts to complete dependence at the end?