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It feels like social media fakeness is seeping through into real life more and more. and every one is working harder on perfecting their façade ?

what do you think ?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what you mean by 'fake.' Do you mean people have a different public persona than a private persona? Because I think that's been true for most of the history of civilization.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty much as soon as we hit the agrarian revolution and started developing spirit/charisma/mana/face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Older than that. I, as a layman, suspect it might be one of the points that indicate the development of conscious thought.

Because Chimps, Cuttlefish and Crows can and do lie to each other in the wild.
Chimps will cheat on each other(i.e. a non-dominant male in a group will pair off with a female chimp, but the female chimp remains paired to the more dominant male of the group. Even going so far that the "other guy" will shield his erection from the first guy to avoid a beating.
Large Cuttlefish males will create and defend "harems" of female cuttlefish during their breeding periods. Smaller male cuttlefish are known to pretend to be female to sneak into a harem and mate with them.
Crows will make false caches of food if they suspect they are being watched by another crow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh for sure. We already had complex social relationships that involved lying when we were only homo erectus and likely incapable of speech and were hunting full grown elephants and hippopotami(yeah, simple stone tools against those monsters required some serious teamwork). I think that creating a social face for those you DON'T know, though, had to come about once we were in a situation where there were people we interacted with that we didn't know. Hunter/gatherer societies generally still operated with too much of a cohesion for you to truly be "fake".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to pretend not to hate my boss to his face every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So did the Ancient Egyptians. So they could avoid getting whipped by him.