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Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
Addiction Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.
taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.
It is perhaps truer, or at least more evident, as regards sports than as regards the other expressions of predatory emulation already spoken of, that the temperament which inclines men to them is essentially a boyish temperament. The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 16th
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