"man is a social animal" sounds all fluffy bunnies but what it means is that there are deep structures in your brain that try to kill you if your perception of your social status is too low. in Dunbar-number-sized social groups most people could clear this bar. most now can't
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an enormous amount of activity is continually devoted to growing and nurturing subcultures that are large enough to sustain a sense of status and small enough for that sense of status to be accessible, then trying to manage that balance against the vicissitudes of churn
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most of culture war can be usefully viewed as people trying to build senses of themselves as important, which gets particularly ugly when your sense of yourself as important is based on your sense of specific other people as unimportant
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it appears to be natural to react to other people trying to puff up their sense of their importance with annoyance, but i feel like it would be helpful to keep in mind that as awkward and ham-fisted as this behavior might get, it's a matter of raw fucking survival for all of us
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There's probably more Darwin points in leaving for a new tribe (rogue males, colonists), changing the system (doing politics/war/terrorism/killing sprees/crimes of passion) or delusions (hobbies, following celebrity, not following politics) over suicide.
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suicide definitely has the lowest Darwin points of all the available options except for the sense in which it has the most Darwin points
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'...work out some way of hacking their self-perception' ah, like this:https://twitter.com/gabrielamadej/status/1123481209038938113 …
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omg h4x
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Except for the highly intelligent or good looking, who likely were able to keep accurate self perception since they were high status by default.
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many of the street folk that i used to know in & around boston, maryland, baltimore would talk in word salads that included a lot of reference to their degraded personal relationships with A-list celebrities
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