[barce]

How did this end up on the front page? Hacker News has always struck me as anti-philosophical and anti-literature.

This was one of the book that I read on my own after reading Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind."

My reading of the book was tinged with melancholy, for if virtue is a skill necessary for happiness, and if only a few can master a skill, then only a few can be happy.

I was 17 at the time and thought, "What an awful world that would give happiness to so few!"

[Yajirobe]

Men from first world countries like to philosophize about ancient Greeks and stoics. That is because some of this philosophy helps them deal with their white-collar jobs and helps establish some meaning in their lives, that's my guess.