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Social Control

Our fundamental socialization can explain how covert messages (such as body language and speech tone) can be sent, understood, and received back and forth between people; sometimes completely independent of the persons’ overt conversation. 

While it may be for more empathetic and intuitive communication, it can also result in an action being performed for no reason other than avoiding potentially alienating interpersonal differences (or something similar to “differences”? Not sure)... For example, people can often use body mimicry when talking to a friend. This results in their friend’s body movements causing their own, mostly without them even noticing it.

In the larger picture, everyone’s personalities, sense of self, ideologies, and behaviors are all either entirely, or at least to a significant extent, a result of the people around them during their lives (maybe mostly parents).

Control: “The power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events” (Oxford).

Humans evolved culturally, socially, and biologically to be social animals; it’s probably likely that that was because a group is stronger than an individual and is also, to an extent, stronger when it’s more integrated.

We are part of an entirely influential collective.

Does that weaken us?

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How to tell when your gymbro is cheating on you

Do you ever get the feeling that your gymbro; the man you have to trust with your life at least every monday; the man who you have learned to depend on; is he seeing another bro for his sets? Here are 5 ways to catch a cheater.

1. Starts asking to hit legs on days when you could hit something else

2. Starts using different blender bottles than usual (because maybe his typical one is in the dishwasher?)

3. Cancels a workout just because you’re 15 minutes late (he’s got a side bro now)

4. Uses up his 30 servings of preworkout in a week (usually takes him two)

5. Moans a different guy’s name when he assfucks you every night

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How Are We Great

“God is dead... And we have killed him... Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” (Nietzsche) 

Three primary human motivations: affiliation, achievement, power (Need Theory)... (imo Greatness by proxy, greatness by status, greatness by influence)

How do we keep aspiring to greatness without a higher power to validate it?