>>2933279By what means is the competition dissolved? By recognising it as a game where one can harmlessly play high or low depending on what is more fun at the time. It never actually disappears: many of the behaviours we engage in with friends only make sense in the context of there still being a generalised status game going on. Plus, of course, we still compete with friends (even if playfully) in various contexts. (Most obviously in actual games, where the general pattern is to try to win, but then switch to letting the friend win if you're winning too much. What most people really want is to be
just slightly above their peers, not enough to upset egalitarianism, but not
slightly below either…)
Moreover a friend absolutely cares what you signal: try never signalling interest in what they have to say and see how long they remain a friend!
I agree that SJWism is vulgar class war (broadly or functionally, most then-SJWs are now self-proclaimed socialists and communists) but this, if anything, reinforces my point that "wokeness" as a floating signifier includes these people despite the fact their existence is rooted not in a certain legal framework, but in other underlying material conditions. (the ones that have lead basically every first world country to electorally polarise politically by age, education, and to a lesser extent sex) thus, you draw Hanania too far.
>What? We are humans, so everything we do is "man-made".Yes. All culture is an artificial creation unless you want to go down the rabbit hole of whether some animals have culture. This is precisely my point.
If you look at all the contemporary ersatz-religions save perhaps the global Trump cult, they are less cruel than what has come before. To objectify oneself to Marxism Leninism or the TADC fandom or some other inane cause is a cultural leap ahead of doing so in the name of the supernatural. (Not to be confused with the TV Series
Supernatural, you can objectify yourself as a fan of that all you like.)
p.s. stop doing this quote line-by-line thing. You claim not to be here for point-scoring but the only reason to write in such a way is to score points instead of engaging with a post holistically.