If Freud were alive today (hate him or not, he's a useful character in the story I'm about to tell), he would postulate a "signaling drive" (irresistible urge to signal to ingroup), which he would consider to be closely related to "death drive."
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I'm not gonna lie reading that was the first time in months I've felt the sensation of like, I dunno if there's a word for it but it's a combination of disgust and pity with a thin coating of angry-cause-he-gives-men-a-bad-name on top
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men are pigs? mostly not. just that fucking guy.
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I wonder if its a fixed personality trait tbh one go-to "what would make this more interesting" thing I think about is "what if this were just genetically determined" like, this is probably a viable strategy, wouldnt surprise me if evolutionarily stable fraction were >> 0
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society mostly makes sense (I think?) as a novel framework where lots of people with bundles of traits, some of which are fixed and some of which are quite flexible, struggle with the fixed ones where they don't fit (or prosper when they fit v well)
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but these days were all in thrall to the superorganisms growing all around us humans havent been free for a long-ass time and were gonna be less so in the future is my guess some nights even sober I can nearly see the nameless guiding egregores stretching out to the stars
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