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Category Archives: Status
‘I Don’t Care If You Read This’
David Pinsof writes: We all care what people think—deeply, desperately. Some of us just act like we don’t care what people think, in order to make people think that we don’t care what they think. We signal we’re not signaling. … Continue reading
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The Middle Class and Striver Class Divide
Aaron Renn writes: Being striver class is about the desire to move up in the world. There are material aspects to that, but also the key element of social status. The striver wants to get into the right schools, to … Continue reading
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Decoding Destiny aka Steve Bonnell (4-21-24)
01:00 The craft of writing effectively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM09:00 Life usually runs on hierarchy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15365411:00 WP: A team of bitter rivals is making Israel’s most crucial war decisions, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/a-team-of-bitter-rivals-is-making-israel-s-most-crucial-war-decisions/ar-AA1nlcR412:00 Decoding Destiny, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/14:00 Reviewing the key moments from the Destiny VS. Jordan Peterson … Continue reading
High Status Tastes
From the new paper “Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes”: Individuals are deemed to be higher status when they have the following characteristics: a high level of childhood exposure to the arts, a graduate degree, one standard … Continue reading
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Trickle-Round Signals: When Low Status Is Mixed with High
From The Journal of Consumer Research: * While high-status individuals can afford to depart from the norms without penalties because of their blanket social acceptance, middle-status individuals are more concerned because their position is less certain (Feshbach 1967; Hollander 1958; … Continue reading
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Symbols of Class Status
Sociologist Erving Goffman wrote in 1951: * Co-operative activity based on a differentiation and integration of statuses is a universal characteristic of social life. This kind of harmony requires that the occupant of each status act toward others in a … Continue reading
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Cancel Culture From Thomas More To Godward Podcast
I suspect that in every society that has ever existed, there have been certain obvious truths you could not say out loud without serious blowback. I don’t think cancel culture is new. No movie had more of an impact on … Continue reading
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Power and Powerlessness: The Eternal Struggle Over Social Status (2-15-21)
https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/tom-wolfe-biography https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/washington-post-tesla-trump-power.php The philosopher Isaiah Berlin on the source of Stoicism's popularity: pic.twitter.com/eMTKAwgocp — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 15, 2021 https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/washington-post-tesla-trump-power.php Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
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Power and Powerlessness: The Eternal Struggle Over Social Status (2-15-21)
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin on the source of Stoicism's popularity: pic.twitter.com/eMTKAwgocp — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 15, 2021 "Because journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power…there is only one way the press maintains its power in society: … Continue reading
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