Friendship and rivalries are born out of the same environment:
An environment where there are strong emotions and zero diversification
Today’s society is all about diversification with millions of options in any sector, and it results in zero commitment in each and everyone.
For example when you commit to a girl, there are other suitors and they become immediately your enemies, if the girl ends up cheating on you both the enemy can become a friend.
In today’s world of dating apps and diversification it’s impossible for it to happen because every person is talking to at least 30 people and thus it becomes impossible to develop strong emotions towards even one of them.
Same for jobs and neighborhood policies, nobody fixates themselves on one thing and stands their ground, that is where the strong friendships and rivalries develop. A close bond with people in your camp develops and also a strong rivalry towards people in the opposite camp.
To feel strong emotions like this is a very fundamental need and the era of information abundance, rampant diversification and rampant optionality has robbed us of all of this.
Ironically developing countries and poor people who don’t have the time or the luxury to diversify and explore millions of options might be better off.
With regards to our potential rivalry you are so distant geographically that it becomes impossible to sustain it. Only politicians, athletes and billionaires can have rivalries on the Internet because their reputation and image is at stake.
The only way for me to have something at stake against you is would be being in the same room