Will Storr

Knowing what you know about our desire for status and how that's just –

impossible to remove from the human mind and human society.

Do you think that we could have like a warning guidebook for human beings?

The same way the Constitution is sort of a warning guidebook to establish a republic.

Like, let's make some real clear checks and balances and let's make sure that the senators and the congresspeople and all this stuff gets in place and the judicial branch and

They planned it out to make sure that one person couldn't just kind of take over and run it.

It feels like we should have guidelines, specifically that we teach people at an early age, to recognize that and call it out when you see it and go, no, no, no, no, no.

Yeah.

This is not, you know, I know what you're doing.

Like you're hijacking this for your own good.

Yeah.

And we know when people do it, we can't say it.

Because if they attach themselves to a virtuous cause, what are you, criticizing blank?

What are you, a Nazi, a racist, a transphobe, whatever it is.

It's like we should be able to see those things.

outside of the merits of the ideas that we're discussing.

Whatever we're discussing, whatever it is, some sort of public social issue that everybody's debating, we should be able to discuss it outside

of this status trap where if you yell this, everybody goes, yeah.

That should be childlike.

We should shun people that do that and teach people at a fucking really early age not to do it.