parasite

biology

worm

ology (the study of)

etymology

mooching

capitalism

working class

billionaire

is noise, a guest, a leech, a microbe, or an insidious infection that takes without giving and weakens without killing. . . The one-way and irreversible relation that is the base of human institutions and disciplines.

For Serres, the parasite is the primordial, one-way, and irreversible relation that is the base of human institutions and disciplines: society, economy, and work... human sciences and hard sciences... religion and history. All of these have the parasitic relation as their basic and fundamental component.

is one who lives where the great have little secret sores.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. Friedrich Nietzsche

is one who usually carries a secret animosity towards those he is dependent on.

The parasite. It indicates a complete lack of nobility of disposition when someone prefers to live in dependency, at the expense of others, merely so as not to have to work and usually with a secret animosity towards those he is dependent on. Such a disposition is much more frequent among women than among men, also much more excusable (for historical reasons). (nietzsche 'human all too human' : 143)

is a base creature that extracts a living from the lives of others, like a tapeworm or a biographer.

A base creature that extracts a living from the lives of others, like a tapeworm or a biographer.

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parasite