egalitarian social values don't make anybody equal, but they do make it low status to display that you think other people are lower status than you. so parallel norms have to be constructed to keep the low status people in their place without appearing to make it about status
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the low status people always have a sense that they're being pervasively lied to, but of course it's low status to question the norms
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very few egalitarian milieus seem to have any taboo on displaying that you consider someone else *higher* status than you, though, leading to the hilarious phenomenon of vast personality cults around people who make a continuous excruciating performance of aw-shucks folksiness
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So what I'm getting here is that cynical status is based around denying the possibility that anyone else's actions might be done in good faith?
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