@Daojoan Apparently it was generally rather egalitarian and consensus-based prior to the Holocene. The advent of lootable resources, monopoly of violence and the inability for the plebs to get out set the scene for power differences, wealth inequality and the ability to transfer that through generations.

So the small percent of sociopaths who would have been cast out of the group for the vast majority of our species' existence now have a vice like grip on all our lives.

This is not "human nature" but the result of increased hierarchisation over time. Still, the good news is that when it all collapses the plebs have historically done better*

* Except this time it's global and we're not all peasant farmers so it might be a bit of a giant cluster fuck.

@Daojoan This. And the original US constitution was build for slave-owners and racists, yet people yearn to think ”what they meant was” something different (it wasn’t). The story we tell ourselves is actually more important than reality, because we self-narrate our own internal world into existence at all times with everything we do.

There's healthy ways to meet those impulses.

I read somewhere that I forget that "to be free is to belong," an I have been chewing on that ever since.

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Roaring an authentic "HAIL ODIN!!" at public occasions gets very, very mixed reactions.

fsociety.

Truely done with this anonymous beast that swallows people whole without a blink, wants credit for it yet never accepts *any* responsibility.

People die:

"It's a shame"

"Thought and prayers"

fck_that

Witnessed a father whose son had committed suicide by train cremate his son in the colors of the national railroad.

And *all* went and shook his hand.

Not_me.