[jason taylor]

When two people meet the most important thing is to establish status vis-a-vis one another. In the back woods they just have a fist fight. In civilized country there are all sorts of ways from reciting and comparing linage to comparing craft products etc. Onlookers judge the result by as they judge who has "played fair". After words the inferior must remain inferior until some event takes place that allows him to claim a power shift.