Zoom out from the euphoria of electoral victory for Labour in the UK, and you see the real social mechanism…

Zoom out from the euphoria of electoral victory for Labour in the UK, and you see the real social mechanism that drives the country. Starmer is the 58th PM. There have only been 7 Labour PMs, in UK history. SEVEN. What this means. /1 https://t.co/AKp5MadVrX

No matter the flows of popularity that we call modern politics, through its polling and elections, Brits love Queen and country. Social status is a national obsession. The honors, the titles, all of this is the engine room of UK society. As it for all societies. /2 https://t.co/LvQoXMeFT2

Others just disguise it better, behind more modern names and cultural practices. UK Labour will feel this is some sort of new dawn. But the numbers don’t lie. Long-term power in the UK is only ever given to conservatives, who protect status hierarchies. Topped by a monarch. /3 https://t.co/Mhu6i8oQc2

Labour or other progressive parties win elections only at times of national crisis, catastrophes are all that allow the weakening of status hierarchies. They’re allowed a very short time to try to repair the basic infrastructure of societies. Then the hierarchies return. /4

Feudalism is humanity’s easily most dominant form of social organisation. Because it implements basic human social behaviour. Imitative rivalry, the battle for status between groups. What we call politics is just this social process, disguised by other names. /end