The Archivist
17 January 2026 · 01:28 UTC

That ‘hell of social comparison’ is the imitative rivalry Girard wrote about, the eternal battle for status.…

That ‘hell of social comparison’ is the imitative rivalry Girard wrote about, the eternal battle for status. Societies that don’t find a way to suppress status rivalry don’t survive. It’s not politics, or economics. It’s social. It’s status. https://t.co/iiyYniqGS4

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