If you all ever do the office politics thing, you know the one where you got to pretend you like stuff you don't like very much because if you don't act like you like it and you're in trouble you're going to run afoul of somebody and that stuff it's going to come back to haunt you later

maybe you have to do that in some social circles or act like you're mad about things

that actually deep down you're not that mad about. There's this age old

human tradition right of throwing in with whatever is winning because there will be consequences sometimes if you

don't throw in with whatever is winning and this was very common in the

various vignettes of court drama that we see from the history of the whole world.

And this isn't just like a Western thing.

This isn't everywhere thing. This transcends human nature. We see it in

ancient India and China and feudal Japan. We see it in sub-Saharan Africa, we see it in Mesopotamia and Egypt and Rome and Greece and in current

American politics just everywhere. The way this works is that you have certain powerful

people who are all involved in the room of nobility or decision-making, whatever you

want to call it, the Royal Court. And everybody either has an arrow that is pointing up or an

arrow that is pointing down. And you want to try to position yourself to be on the side of the people for whom the arrow is pointing up,

especially if you live in a time where if the arrow points up too much for one particular player in the game. They get to take revenge on everybody

they don't like, dispossessed them of their property or maybe their heads, whatever

it might be. And it's really comical when you go back and you look at this kind of dynamic amongst the

social power brokers when you go back and look at it through history is very very

funny because you're removed from the pressure right so you can afford to just laugh at these silly gooses

and how they could all say the emperor is wearing fine clothing

when in fact the emperor has no clothes.

They could all gather around

sick of frantically all these highly educated super wealthy influential people

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