Handshakes: A Window Into Violence
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6 min readMar 5, 2021
A handshake is a ritual of imitation that signals equality and peace. Breaking its rules ever-so-slightly reveals the extent of our mimetic impulses.
Covid-19 has threatened the survival of the handshake. (It turns out that a handshake is not very hygienic, and most of us have gotten used to elbow bumps or Namaste gestures anyway.)