Affiliation or Dominance?

If you want to look at anything in the long run that involves community and culture and humans, the fear of capitulation is a sure way to have it all fall apart. Human beings tend to keep track of one of two things, either affiliation or dominance. Affiliation enables us to have culture. The alternative is dominance, who's up and who's down, who's winning and who's losing. As keith johnstone wrote about a really long time ago, all theatre is is a display of status,. Any important scene in any work of fiction is simply about that. I may have talked on this podcast years ago about the opening scene of the godfather. Until we decided was it