"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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Replying to @chaosprime
Imagining a cascade failure wherein a population is shown an ordered list of their relative social statuses, making each person immediately aware when they've become the lowest on the list...
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the person lowest on the list will fight like hell to stay there. the person second lowest on the list should be immediately placed on suicide watch
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I dont understand. The person with the lowest status in the group would not succumb to this effect?
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