the most upsetting thought-seed that keeps germinating in my mind, that I can't seem to shake or remove, is the idea that almost ALL of human behavior (outside of pure subsistence) is about playing games of social control. That it's so typical that most people don't even see it.
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I guess because politics seems to be directly relevant and dependant on social control. Also because cruelty as both pastime and instrument of self advancement seems to infect group dynamics really easily.
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ideally, I think politics is a set of cultural norms for group decision making. that's adjacent to social control, but not quite the same thing because it (ideally) ought to be consensual/voluntary. of course politics is almost always much much worse than the ideal.
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