there is a fantasy about how the world works with rational agents making decisions about what contracts they enter into how they deploy the resources they have access to, ect, and then theres the real game that's being played that's kind of just a power play about who gets to be the authority, who is the person who needs to be submitted to, shown deference, and you're supposed to look like you're playing both games but really the only one that matters is the latter
i think i'm having a much much easier time identifying when this submission/dominance game is being played and it's like almost constantly. there's a sense developed in most social contexts of who's supposed to talk or lead the conversation and most people just sort of fall in line to these unconscious decisions. part of why people get so upset at me is because i talk in a way that fucks with their signalling so they shout at me to stop talking like an authority or otherwise try to shut me out of discourse as to not disturb their careful ranking system. extremely retarded apes, stop acting like chimps, there's infinitely cooler primates you could be mirroring instead like orangutans but thinking for yourself is hard ig
