If you consider this from an evolutionary standpoint…
The human race is built upon many layers. Some of those layers are animal while others are highly social. Think clans and tribes for thousands of years. If you didn’t fit in that was it for you, it was the collective that made survival possible. Because of this we constantly judge and compare ourselves. It’s ingrained in us through a long succession of embodiments that cared where we stood in the pecking order of the tribe and how we looked to attract a mate. That’s what brought you to your existence. Old habits die hard, and you are seeing them manifest in different ways, we are walking around with the hyper-sensitive, status-obsessed, mate-seeking hardware of a hunter-gatherer, but living in a world of social media.
Want to know more? Richard Wrangham, R. Douglas Fields, and René Girard have some interesting theories on the origins, mechanics, and triggers associated with what you see in society.
If you consider this from an evolutionary standpoint…
The human race is built upon many layers. Some of those layers are animal while others are highly social. Think clans and tribes for thousands of years. If you didn’t fit in that was it for you, it was the collective that made survival possible. Because of this we constantly judge and compare ourselves. It’s ingrained in us through a long succession of embodiments that cared where we stood in the pecking order of the tribe and how we looked to attract a mate. That’s what brought you to your existence. Old habits die hard, and you are seeing them manifest in different ways, we are walking around with the hyper-sensitive, status-obsessed, mate-seeking hardware of a hunter-gatherer, but living in a world of social media.
Want to know more? Richard Wrangham, R. Douglas Fields, and René Girard have some interesting theories on the origins, mechanics, and triggers associated with what you see in society.