“People are over sensitive to ostracism because human brains are hardwired to be sensitive to it, because in the ancestral environment it meant death.”
Evopsyche seems mostly overkill for explaining why a particular person is strongly attached to social reality.
People who did not care what their parents or school-teachers thought of them had a very hard time. “Socialization” as the process of the people around you integrating you (often forcefully) into the local social reality. Unless you meet a minimum bar of socialization, it’s very common to be shunted through systems that treat you worse and worse. Awareness of this, and the lasting imprint of coercive methods used to integrate one into social reality, seem like they can explain most of an individuals resistance to breaking from it.
“People are over sensitive to ostracism because human brains are hardwired to be sensitive to it, because in the ancestral environment it meant death.”
Evopsyche seems mostly overkill for explaining why a particular person is strongly attached to social reality.
People who did not care what their parents or school-teachers thought of them had a very hard time. “Socialization” as the process of the people around you integrating you (often forcefully) into the local social reality. Unless you meet a minimum bar of socialization, it’s very common to be shunted through systems that treat you worse and worse. Awareness of this, and the lasting imprint of coercive methods used to integrate one into social reality, seem like they can explain most of an individuals resistance to breaking from it.