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Virtually Signaling Singles

Virtually Signaling Singles

Our virtual lives have created a need for low resolution ways to display our identities, values and tribes (usually this is one of the same).

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Dara Macdonald
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Our virtual lives have created a need for low resolution ways to display our identities, values and tribes (usually this is one of the same).

Virtue signaling is adaptive both evolutionarily as Geoffrey Miller writes and in modernity when we are encouraged to make snap judgements about people based on their online displays.

No more is this the case than i…

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