Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like, we don't get rid of this guy, he's gonna get us all killed.
You know, it's not just that he's he's rubbing people the wrong way, he's a direct threat to the survival of these.
Men, and you can kind of like extrapolate how this would play out in a number of scenarios.
People who constantly assert dominance are bad news.
People are less likely to help them out because they don't like them.
Which is a big deal if you're an obligate cooperative.
It's a big deal if you, you know, which take it out of war.
It's like if you work in an office, I'm just not gonna help you.
Because you're kind of a jerk.
So this is a good pivot to the notion of reverse dominance hierarchy.
There are societies, uh existing human societies, such as the, and I'm gonna do my level best to pronounce this correctly, Kung San and the Inuit, where if one person
gets too big for their britches, they will take him down a peg because he's gotten too powerful.
They're not chucking hand grenades at the guy.
They're just ridiculing him, shaming him, ostracizing him.
But for many periods of human history, having a sort of domineering alpha mindset could be a death sentence.
Right.
There's also the concept of dominance versus prestige.
This is a concept taken from the work of Joseph Henrik.
Prestige is a lot more accurate way of describing how humans get to the top in the modern world than anything we have from the animal kingdom.
So take the Alpha Wolf model where fear and intimidation are used to take status and force followers to submit.
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