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A review by niniane
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
2.0
Analysis of how status leads to admiration from others, laughing at jokes, overlooking faults. Thus people are compelled to chase status.
Some proposals on how people could use an individual philosophy to care less what others think, or use art / writing to poke fun subversively at high status people.
It is a rather narrow viewpoint which is centered on the US and western Europe. It purports to give a larger perspective but all the history is from a white male perspective plus occasionally mentioning some native tribes and calling them "backwards".
Some proposals on how people could use an individual philosophy to care less what others think, or use art / writing to poke fun subversively at high status people.
It is a rather narrow viewpoint which is centered on the US and western Europe. It purports to give a larger perspective but all the history is from a white male perspective plus occasionally mentioning some native tribes and calling them "backwards".