tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4491125679904809656.post2440878507849704578..comments2008-05-06T12:45:22.603-07:00Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15855325002260654089miss_mudpie@yahoo.co.ukBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4491125679904809656.post-50986984598501506362008-05-06T12:45:00.000-07:002008-05-06T12:45:00.000-07:002008-05-06T12:45:00.000-07:00I don't care about status at all. Just give me the money!melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4491125679904809656.post-8936426501561456762008-05-06T07:41:00.000-07:002008-05-06T07:41:00.000-07:002008-05-06T07:41:00.000-07:00Well, duh---if not for this particular hard-wiring, poor Jane Austen would have been out of a writin' job (as would Nancy Mitford, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Proust, et al ad infinitum...) If humans had absolutely no perception/interest in social standing, why, we'd be left with a few horrible Theodore Dreiser works!<BR/><BR/>Animals do it too---look at all the studies on gorillas in the wild, horse herds, wolves...<BR/><BR/>Pretty complex topic for early morning---I think I'll return to the Oreo Cookie topic (more along my intellectual lines:):)mule in hoss harnessnoreply@blogger.com