Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage. The problem is, equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question is how to enable elites to compete for the group.
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 17:50:13 UTC
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@TheStoicEmperor
Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer.
Each device contains the library of Alexandria.
The sum total of all world knowledge.
You can learn anything. Why don’t you?
Too busy tracking social status.
Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can’t resist.
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967962344805474305
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