Doug's Good Books

A very influential book in my life. The book is impossible reading, but I kept at it, and learned that struggling with the style made me think more deeply and consciously about what he is saying. Bourdieu's underlying idea is simple: rich people got enough money to get good at games that poor people can't afford. We all kinda know this, but the wave of his words pounding pounding on your mind as you try to decipher his every sentence; makes you rethink and rethink ... until you have a deeper understanding of just how these games are played at all levels ... all the time. Bourdieu turns you into a fatalist ... which isn't good; but might just be a necessary condition in the fight to rip oneself out of some of the subtle traps that make up everyday life.