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Why are we so concerned with impressing each other? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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"How impressed everybody is" is the basis of money, law, self-worth and our models of reality. But that's a pretty shabby basis if you ask me.

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[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok, the obvious : our society-programming is just that powerful. So we are all eyebrows-deep embedded in a useful insanity.

But you'd think we'd struggle against our restraints a bit more. That it might even be common. If nothing else, for the sake of art, science, economics.