The Archivist
4 July 2025 · 21:03 UTC

There is no ‘we’ now, just status games. ‘We’ was a creation of the post-WW2 repair, just as communities…

There is no ‘we’ now, just status games. ‘We’ was a creation of the post-WW2 repair, just as communities ‘unite’ around things like bushfires and floods. In good times ‘we’ is an obstacle to status games, or ‘identity politics’ today. Status = identity, we’re social animals. https://t.co/Rm7gKSDbsa

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