Thursday, February 15, 2007

Food for thought, on social status

What people really seem to want most is a better place in the pecking order. ...legacy of our evolutionary origins. ... one wonderful thing about status. It can be manufactured at low cost.
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Both domestically and internationally, we're collectively trending toward mass humiliation of opponents. Why not try to make as many reasonable people as happy as possible when it costs so little?

- Jaron Lanier, from here in the NY Times

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