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#374 - Will Storr - How To Play The Status Game
Modern Wisdom
The Status Game and Cancel Culture
In the early human groups, is pre modern groups, are very much about consensus. And so that hapens when people break, breaks the rules of the group. It's something that builds itself up in an atmosphere of accusation, gossip and consensus - and it kind of fires at this person. The idea that really made sense of cancel culture for me was this idea called the tyranny of the cousins. No one's in charge of a council culpture mob. No one can start it, no one can stop it. I could compare a modern mobbing to gabo tribe in papy, new Guinea. You know, dancing between confino, defending themselves but being too scared to
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