Graydon on Nostr: Guns enhance your status. Wearing a respirator says you're as subject to facts as ...
Guns enhance your status. Wearing a respirator says you're as subject to facts as anybody else, and thereby diminishes your status.
Lots of selection pressure for being really focused on status to the exclusion of all else, because like money, you can usually substitute it for whatever you don't have. Occasions like the present plague where you can't shift all the costs on to other, lower status people are rare.
Lots of selection pressure for being really focused on status to the exclusion of all else, because like money, you can usually substitute it for whatever you don't have. Occasions like the present plague where you can't shift all the costs on to other, lower status people are rare.