12 November

We’ve been encouraged by countercultural ideas nearly 70 years ago to believe that the more equal and social we are, the more peaceful and prosperous we will all be. But societies run on status. The more equal and social we are, the more intensely we fight. Humans despise equality, despite what they say. They always want to differentiate themselves from the sameness. They want status, because status is identity for social animals. Look at the comments on any public social media post, the vicious pile-ons that are all about people resisting any attempt to ‘unify’ them behind things.