16 February

The American writer Noah Smith capturing here what I also believe about societies. Everything we call politics is a lie. Left to themselves, humans do one thing only. They fight each other for status, usually in teams. Why I call it ‘team sports’. Then when everything breaks, it forces some collective effort to fix it. Once fixed enough, the team sports start all over again. Repeat ad infinitum. Social media pours petrol on this process, dramatically accelerating and intensifying it. Humans are always 100% social, never economic or political or even personal. Everything is social. Even taste in music or food or anything else, is social, even if people don’t realise they’re imitating others.