People can’t stop themselves from competing for status . It is branded into the side of the brain before you are born.^[cit req]^ As a primate, status hierarchies are a part of life,¹ and when you remove yourself from the competition² in the mainstream you just join the competition in the counterculture.³

Amazing leaps of anti science assertions. Homo Sapiens are, anthropologically one of the primates that evolved cooperation to a point of Egalitarianism.¹ They are not the only mammals observed to emergence cooperation as species, some insects even emergence this strategy. “Status” varies among species, and group dynamics. The competition most mammals had to endure was raw survival in nature. Now that we can tool, shelter, heck even aquaduct, cooperation is more achievable than it was millenia ago.² Counterculture is also an extremely narrow view to lense our complex life. We’ve had periods of “yes and yes” “and also this,” “maybe even that.” Witnessing our radiant exuberant planet diametrically instead of holistically is just constrictive.³ But the drive to survive is very strong.