"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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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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Like families! Each child you have buys you a finite period of time in which they treat you like you’re the best and most important person ever, assuming you have sufficient parenting ability
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this selection should operate on the level of the group, b/c most of the time you don't want the lowest decile overall to all kms
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@KarlKGallagher wrote a sci-fi book where social media is full of fake virtual people designed to look like losers and make real people feel they aren't at the bottom of society.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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