http://360skeptic.com/2010/03/less-visible-forms-of-social-power/ Asking Questions Without Limits Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://360skeptic.com/2010/03/less-visible-forms-of-social-power/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Nance Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:25:17 +0000 http://360skeptic.com/2010/03/less-visible-forms-of-social-power/#comment-22 We zero-sum gaming Westerners love our symbolic hierarchical signals; the more of those we have in place, the "cooler" our competitive efforts can be...until we reach that ideal of coolness, the totally relaxed face and body, the effortless domination, the pretense of egalitarianism. Whether those signals are stripes on a sleeve, an elegantly scripted name on a door, or the right to walk into a meeting late knowing no one can start without you, the fewer of those gross animal gestures we have to make, the better we like it. You might say that our adoration of status symbols brought our country to its knees. We zero-sum gaming Westerners love our symbolic hierarchical signals; the more of those we have in place, the “cooler” our competitive efforts can be…until we reach that ideal of coolness, the totally relaxed face and body, the effortless domination, the pretense of egalitarianism. Whether those signals are stripes on a sleeve, an elegantly scripted name on a door, or the right to walk into a meeting late knowing no one can start without you, the fewer of those gross animal gestures we have to make, the better we like it. You might say that our adoration of status symbols brought our country to its knees.

]]> http://360skeptic.com/2010/03/less-visible-forms-of-social-power/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Carnival of Evolution #22 « Beetles In The Bush Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:07:27 +0000 http://360skeptic.com/2010/03/less-visible-forms-of-social-power/#comment-18 [...] Bernardin at 360 Degree Skeptic presents an evolutionary psychology piece in his post, Less Visible Forms of Social Power | 360 Degree Skeptic. Are humans an exuberantly affiliative species, like the bonobo, or is our nature is essentially [...] [...] Bernardin at 360 Degree Skeptic presents an evolutionary psychology piece in his post, Less Visible Forms of Social Power | 360 Degree Skeptic. Are humans an exuberantly affiliative species, like the bonobo, or is our nature is essentially [...]

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