Ahh, so humans aren’t animals because we think where as stupid animals don’t thinking? No animal has never solved a maze or cognitive puzzle eh? No, animals think too.
Oh but they’re more guided by instincts? Is that what you’re saying?
…well, I guess we’ll have to throw out every scientific paper on what humans do if there’s a fire, a crowd, or a stock market crash. What we do when hungry, or at war, or when we’re lost.
Nope we also have instincts.
We, the humans with the thinking “rational brains” are also just animals. We also have instincts and responses. Statistical range of them. Not all people panic in a fire, or when lost but ENOUGH do that it’s a known instinct we can write about as “human nature”.
… and we have social instincts too. A statistical range of them.
Like, say when we’re meeting a big chief, or tribe leader, a hero or someone important to the tribe… We have social instincts.
So the tribe is telling us Chappell Roan is one such important person. Some of us, perhaps those who are particularly vain, or insecure, have a stronger reaction.
It’s instincts. It’s produced by social knowledge of celebrities as socially important. As financial opportunities, as minor miracles - aka as “Sensational” - as “Special” - as “Stars”. Everything advertising tells us they are.
…oh look, it’s the same problem. The instincts are already being manipulated, in aa money making direction.
But you’re right - there is a solution - something we can do to mitigate the problem to reduce it. We can NOT promote certain people as celebrities. We can not have celebrities.
We could for instance just have bards who are well paid, but not promoted as products so much. We could limit broadcasts, and the more massive wages of entertainers, try to localized them to single cities or states.
Basically we could try to get rid of their celebrity, and the industry around it.
But we’d probably still have these problems. Because we’re dealing with human nature.
“Oh we’re not like bears and sharks”.
I really wish that was true. I wish we’d focus that understanding of ourselves in places like Palestine, South Sudan, or Ukraine.
Ahh, so humans aren’t animals because we think where as stupid animals don’t thinking? No animal has never solved a maze or cognitive puzzle eh? No, animals think too.
Oh but they’re more guided by instincts? Is that what you’re saying?
…well, I guess we’ll have to throw out every scientific paper on what humans do if there’s a fire, a crowd, or a stock market crash. What we do when hungry, or at war, or when we’re lost.
Nope we also have instincts.
We, the humans with the thinking “rational brains” are also just animals. We also have instincts and responses. Statistical range of them. Not all people panic in a fire, or when lost but ENOUGH do that it’s a known instinct we can write about as “human nature”.
… and we have social instincts too. A statistical range of them.
Like, say when we’re meeting a big chief, or tribe leader, a hero or someone important to the tribe… We have social instincts.
So the tribe is telling us Chappell Roan is one such important person. Some of us, perhaps those who are particularly vain, or insecure, have a stronger reaction.
It’s instincts. It’s produced by social knowledge of celebrities as socially important. As financial opportunities, as minor miracles - aka as “Sensational” - as “Special” - as “Stars”. Everything advertising tells us they are.
…oh look, it’s the same problem. The instincts are already being manipulated, in aa money making direction.
But you’re right - there is a solution - something we can do to mitigate the problem to reduce it. We can NOT promote certain people as celebrities. We can not have celebrities.
We could for instance just have bards who are well paid, but not promoted as products so much. We could limit broadcasts, and the more massive wages of entertainers, try to localized them to single cities or states.
Basically we could try to get rid of their celebrity, and the industry around it.
But we’d probably still have these problems. Because we’re dealing with human nature.
“Oh we’re not like bears and sharks”.
I really wish that was true. I wish we’d focus that understanding of ourselves in places like Palestine, South Sudan, or Ukraine.
We’re not bears or sharks… Except when we are!