Lucas Blogs About A Brief History of Vice
Drunken monkeys? Tell me more. So, what's this book's deal? Well, do you remember Robert Evans from cracked.com ? He's the guy who did stuff like go into active war zones to talk to people about their experiences ? Yes, yes he did. He's not with Cracked anymore, but when he was he wrote a book called A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization. How would you describe the genre? Oh, um, I guess this is loosely, a popular science book, although it does also have a lot of stuff about history and sociology, so maybe it's more of a hodgepodge. It's maybe more of a collection of essays exploring various things that are considered vices in modern society: drugs, prostitution, and being an asshole. It doesn't necessarily advocate for or against any of those things, Evans is more interested in exploring the ways in which these behaviors (and society's reaction to them) has shaped our modern world. He also includes instructions fo...