<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # And now perhaps the entire nauseating architecture... > And now perhaps the entire nauseating architecture of the toxic human begins to look different. The possessive lover, the territorial spouse, the retaliatory ex, the coalition-building bully, the status-drunk executive, the family tyrant, the gossip collecting allies, the jealous mate monitoring rivals, the group scanning for an expendable outsider: human behavior passes through language, institutions, law, culture and biography, and no serious person collapses it into chimpanzee behavior. But the ancient primitives are standing there like a skeleton under the clothing, **rank, coalition, intimidation, mate guarding, resource control, territoriality, punishment, exclusion, vulnerability detection and opportunistic aggression**, and once you know their names{Once you know the names of the old primate behaviors{ you cannot stop seeing the bones through the fabric.}} {{Office politics are a troop. A family estrangement is an expulsion. A group chat is a patrol.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “And now perhaps the entire nauseating architecture of the toxic human begins to look different. The possessive lover, the territorial spouse, the retaliatory ex, the coalition-building bully, the status-drunk executive, the family tyrant, the gossip collecting allies, the jealous mate monitoring rivals, the group scanning for an expendable outsider: human behavior passes through language, institutions, law, culture and biography, and no serious person collapses it into chimpanzee behavior. But the ancient primitives are standing there like a skeleton under the clothing, rank, coalition, intimidation, mate guarding, resource control, territoriality, punishment, exclusion, vulnerability detection and opportunistic aggression, and once you know their names you cannot stop seeing the bones through the fabric. Office politics are a troop. A family estrangement is an expulsion. A group chat is a patrol.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-now-perhaps-entire-group-chat-patrol ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->