Because humans are primates, we have a strong drive to gain social status and play dominance games. The problem is that humans tend to take important concepts and turn them into dominance games.
As a result, people anticipate some sort of dominance or status game whenever they hear about an important concept. For many people, this anticipation has become so strong that they stopped believing that important concepts can exist.
Worth noting that in humans (and unlike in most other primates) status isn’t primarily determined solely by dominance (e.g., control via coercion), but instead is also significantly influenced via prestige (e.g., voluntary deference due to admiration). While both dominance and prestige play a large role in determining status among humans, if anything prestige probably plays a larger role.
(Note – I’m not an expert in anthropology, and anyone who is can chime in, but this is my understanding given my amount of knowledge in the area.)
Agreed, I only used the word “dominance games” because it seemed helpful for understandability and the wordcount. But it was inaccurate enough to be worth effort to find a better combination of words.
Because humans are primates, we have a strong drive to gain social status and play dominance games. The problem is that humans tend to take important concepts and turn them into dominance games.
As a result, people anticipate some sort of dominance or status game whenever they hear about an important concept. For many people, this anticipation has become so strong that they stopped believing that important concepts can exist.
Worth noting that in humans (and unlike in most other primates) status isn’t primarily determined solely by dominance (e.g., control via coercion), but instead is also significantly influenced via prestige (e.g., voluntary deference due to admiration). While both dominance and prestige play a large role in determining status among humans, if anything prestige probably plays a larger role.
(Note – I’m not an expert in anthropology, and anyone who is can chime in, but this is my understanding given my amount of knowledge in the area.)
Agreed, I only used the word “dominance games” because it seemed helpful for understandability and the wordcount. But it was inaccurate enough to be worth effort to find a better combination of words.