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#556 - Rob Henderson - How Men Compete For Status

Modern Wisdom

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The Monkey Dance

The monkey dance is always or almost always two young men who are roughly the same age and roughly similar in physicality. It typically only occurs when there's some question about who would actually prevail in this physical contest. If these two guys were going to fight, we actually don't know who would win. Monkey dances very seldom rise between like friends in a group in which the sort of the relationships are established.

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