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The status detection system never switches off. The game never pauses. This is why, especially in the public sphere, we can find ourselves playing hyper-local status games that are often fleetingly transient and can be between just two people.
These kingdoms – these virtual, connected, brain-generated hallucinations of reality – are the realms in which we exist. Our status game is a place. It’s our neural territory, our world.
LIFE IS NOT as it appears. As neuroscientist Professor Chris Frith writes, ‘our perception of the world is a fantasy that collides with reality’. The dream state we exist in is founded on objective truth – we’re alive on a planet, breathing air under skies.
