"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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this means that rational and accurate self-perception, as matters stand with our world-sized pool of fish making everybody small. is a suicide pact. this is the source of a truth we all recognize: in modern society, to be sane is fucking nuts
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our survival drive never goes away either, though, so we're continually working out dozens of ways to cope with this. if you run into people on the lowest rungs of society in your day-to-day, you mostly run into ones who are obviously deeply crazy
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this is a matter of selection pressure; the ones whose brains couldn't work out some way of hacking their self-perception are mostly dead now. higher up, a very popular solution is celebrity culture, where you identify with a figure of worship and participate in their status
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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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I'm dense, is that an overflow thing? Glitching evolution by jumping off a cliff?
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by committing suicide, you've improved your population's fitness by inhibiting the propagation of the genes that contributed in whatever fashion they did to you committing suicide
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The 99% "good" alleles tackling the deleterious 1% off a cliff - "My family would be better off without me." The 1% seeing themselves in others and hoping their sacrifice will raise the status of those others - "When OutGroup see how much InGroup suffers, they will change."
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