How Do You Create a Community That Competes About Status?

People want status. And you can create communities that compete, that compete about certain objects of status that are completely arbitrary. Science could be an example of such a mimet the community that is quite functional but might have dynamics that are completely unproductive in many aspects. The way to show your high social status is to retract. By pulling out, you will get the attention. That means there's more negation than ever involved in social success. Kiksaid samo cri wrote about this prophetically. There will not be any revolutions in the time to come. You just be retractions.