you know it’s interesting that you with this this woman that you talked about in the beginning you talked about how she’s you know she’s crouched down and she’s looking down at the ground and all that so it’s interesting in your rules obviously the first the first rule is to stand up straight with your shoulders back right well when you get for lack of a better word indoctrinated in fact there is no better word when you get indoctrinated in the military that’s exactly what’s happening and guess what you get taught one of the first things that you get taught is how to stand how to stand properly and you know what they tell you chin up chest out shoulders back they make you stand like that there’s no coincidence to that is that you could say it’s a dominant stance but that’s not the right way of thinking about it although it is a dominant stance the reason to adopt it is not because it’s a dominant stance it’s a competent stance and competence tends to make you dominant at least in in hierarchies that are functioning properly because you want there are hierarchies which is what I outlined in Chapter one I say though hierarchies are old they’re not socio-cultural constructions they’re not a secondary consequence of capitalism and the free mark all of that is absolute nonsense it couldn’t be more wrong and as an indication of that I point out that lobsters whom we diverged from on the evolutionary front a third of a billion years ago have hierarchies right and that the neurochemical systems the neural neurological systems that lobsters have runoff that mediate their hierarchical status run on the same chemical that the neurological systems that we use to mediate hierarchy run on so that’s just absolutely mind-boggling but lobster like a victorious lobster stretches out and adopts a more dominant poles because his serotonin levels go up as he becomes more and more victorious and that governs posture well and so to stand up straight with your shoulders back is to open yourself up to the world you’re not in it if you’re not in the defensive Crouch of a prey animal technically speaking and that is the circuitry that’s governing posture its prey vs predator or something like that and an to stand up like that is to expose your yourself to the world but in a bring it on sort of manner not not precisely combative but let’s say courageous and your posture announces that and it doesn’t just announce that to other people it announces that to yourself and it can start it can be one of those things that can start a virtuous cycle o curry which is partly why it’s taught in the military get these guys that come in they’re all slumped over they don’t know how to stand up they’re looking at their feet their necks are bent like even if they’re good-looking men they don’t look good because they’re all crunched over you see people like this on the street all the time they could be perfectly attractive except they’re completely huddled in you know they need to stand up and stretch themselves out and then they can breathe too and that’s a competent stance
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