Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
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And I think that people can kind of like see like at your school there was whatever, like the high school quarterback and the captain of the basketball team or whatever.
And then there was just like the rest of the guys who were jocks of whatever.
Again, I think that like you can use it as a way to kind of like increase understanding or you can use it as a substitute for understanding.
I think that there are social hierarchies in in every situation.
Uh but that's the thing is that they're fluid.
You can be the alpha in one situ or wha how whatever you want with the top dog.
You know, you can be the top dog at work and you go home and you know, your wife's the boss and your kids make fun of you and
And then you go play racquetball and you're like kind of somewhere in the middle.
You know, it could change throughout the day.
The anyone who spent any kind of time in alternative subcultures or the art world knows that, for example, conventional attractiveness does not count for a lot.
You're the alpha Chad, chisel chin, perfect haircut guy, and you go to like a got.
club, you're not probably gonna be most
Yeah, and I so I think that the more nuanced version we talk about, first of all, I think it's it's at least fairer because it doesn't assume that like if you're not the grown up equivalent of the quarterback of the football team, just a hopeless loser, and you need to like learn all these stupid human tricks to like have any shot in life.
But we could talk about the more nuanced version all day.
But I do think that it immediately shows how silly it is to divide people into hyper competent, insanely charismatic leaders and just this mob of feckless followers who just have no hope.
Right.
So it's based on a study of wolves from the nineteen forties by a guy named Rudolf Schenker.
This is actually interesting.
The dogs in the study were not even wild dogs.
They were dogs in captivity.
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