"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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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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less of a problem if you're causally isolated from them, but when you're constantly in spitting range
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My favorite visceral exploration of this ideahttps://youtu.be/UlzaBi_QxPw?t=49 …
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useful lense, but mustn't neglect the high degree to which it's straightforwardly about real-life coercive power
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As cultures subdivides, war shifts from Nations to Words. A single word can cause a War. Subjectivity is a zero-sum game as the reason for fight is Unknown P2P Protocols for Trusted information exchange bridges the war divide and reduces the Subjective Overlay = Friction Removal
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