There's no new dynamic here. Our desire to one-up each other keeps us from packing together too tightly in our sheep pens. The speaker is an example: earnestly

There's no new dynamic here. Our desire to one-up each other keeps us from packing together too tightly in our sheep pens. The speaker is an example: earnestly paternal and implicitly more insightful than everyone else he's saving. But he's not uncommon, and never will be.