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    This guy is soooooo SLI in his theories:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen
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    I've read his most famous book, "The Theory of the Leisure Class". His themes strike me as slightly "resolute" as in Se/Ni quadra - he is ridiculing a Se and Fe approach to human relationships, which he deems as tribal. My impression is that he's ILI, rather than SLI.
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    I still have to read that book, but ILI could certainly be an option.
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    He's in Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm I liked what Wikipedia says about his book but I won't have time to look much into it today. So I can't say what I think his type is.

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    Veblen is one of the early Technocrats, I've (partly) read his book "The engineers and the price system". It's interesting, but I found it pretty hard to read and understand. I think it still helped me to form my own opinion on this subject. I've no idea what his type could be, though.
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    Just for the record, I didn't like his book and his theories. They reflected the attitude towards life of a profundly cynic and misanthropic person, IMHO. There's nothing wrong with being cynic, but you need to know your own bias when you're trying to build a realistic model of the world.
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    When I read Conspicuous Consumption the writer's NT-ness was apparent though for what it's worth I thought he was possibly LII. Te-ILI is another plausible typing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    Just for the record, I didn't like his book and his theories. They reflected the attitude towards life of a profundly cynic and misanthropic person, IMHO. There's nothing wrong with being cynic, but you need to know your own bias when you're trying to build a realistic model of the world.
    I agree, his attitude sounds much like the attitude of the Protestant Ethic Max Weber wrote about: all work and no fun.
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