Dimensionality and its Discontents
In 1930, Sigmund Freud published his masterwork, "Civilization and its Discontents" (available here: http://tinyurl.com/lpnthbh). Freud explained that although our happiness critically depends on living in a society empowered to limit how we all manifest our most basic urges and behaviors, personally subjecting ourselves to the resulting societal constraints ironically limits our happiness. Freud's critical insight corresponds to what game theorists cast as a prisoners' dilem
