Books like Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge

This is a book about the theoretical framework for why it may be productive to consider society and culture as a living organism, and why that approach in studying it may lead to valuable insights. A point of view which I wholeheartedly agree with. But the book is very badly written. It is highly obtuse and technical, possibly because these thoughts may have been very radical when they were proposed 40 years ago. Lorenz spends many pages "kicking in open doors", preemptivly countering objections that could only possible be made by the most stubborn and nitpicking academics. This book would have been much more accesible and valuable if Lorenz had spent much less energy on tackling potential objections and focused on the implications of his theories instead. Still a good book, though