Human life is a battle for status. Status is also identity, without it, you’re nobody. We join groups (teams)…

Human life is a battle for status. Status is also identity, without it, you’re nobody. We join groups (teams) to fight these battles, emulating high-status individuals. Team members imitate one another, ‘peer pressure’, to have membership of the group. /1 https://t.co/xn57E147ts

These teams then battle each other, in status games. Team sports. That’s the origin of everything from actual team sports, to fashion, politics, art, science etc. Look around. Our world is status games, not politics. Not economics. Only catastrophe disrupts it. 2/2