i acquired it then because i was thinking about how unrequited desire maintains interest, but really it was more akin to the obsession experienced with a random reward schedule
"the experiment might be said to demonstrate a sort of superstition. the bird behaves as if there was a causal relation between its behavior and the presentation of food, although such a relation is lacking"
there's a lot of these that are like "wow that's a deep thought!" if you've never read any philosophy and you don't realize she's poorly articulating the defunct history of western thought
okay lowkey i'm the one slopping it up i'm being just as unrigorous in my response and thoughts about this but that's because the original is so jumbled lol
in some ways it reminds me of those proto anarchists that were like "guys let's just simplify the rules to a dozen or so and hang them up at the town square" but i don't really feel like drawing out the connection
i also think like, jealousy as frustration with another's attention has a lot more going for it than it normally gets credit for. mostly because the cultural forms it continually finds itself bound to are grotesque