Life is one big status game

Unherd ^ | 3 September 2021 | Ed West

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

VERY well-written article. Must read. The statement attributed (maybe or maybe not so) to Mark Twain that still rings true:

It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so.

~ Mark Twain

[silverleaf]

Excellent article

[drSteve78]

Even if Reagan said it better about Our Liberal Friends.

[cgbg]

Agreed.

First they demonize you.

Then they enslave or kill you.

[snoringbear]

Considering all the hardtack and such they ate in those days sauerkraut would have been good for breaking up the piles 💩😵‍💫….

[SaxxonWoods]

It’s the same in the animal world.

[metmom]

Excellent article.

It certainly explains herd mentality and why people will cave to public pressure.

And apparently the left knows this pretty well and uses it on the American public without restraint.

[libh8er]

And thus LinkedIn was created.

[cgbg]

Folks who give in to the herd mentality are dangerous to themselves and anyone near them.

The herd can move on a dime and without warning.

Those are people to avoid at all costs.

[gloryblaze]

Virtue signaling.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Excellent article

It sure is.

[Sans-Culotte]

[PeterPrinciple]

But desire for status is the one thing that can never be overcome, because it is not enough that I succeed — others must fail.

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Win/lose vs win/win

[blueunicorn6]

It is the appearance of high status that is sought.

Many young people are financially maxed out trying to acquire the right toys.

Dangerously maxed out.

[FreshPrince]

Well I guess I am an outlier...never been too obsessed with “status”...dont give a flying fig....at the end of the day we are all of equal status ...dead...

[kosciusko51]

“But desire for status is the one thing that can never be overcome, because it is not enough that I succeed — others must fail.”

The only people I wish fail are those who would do me ill.

[Leep]

90% of civilization is overrated.
Thank goodness I am not totally civilized.

[caww]

Status goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. However much can be said for “Contentment” with such as one has which status seekers seldom find.

[metmom]

Same here.

What the rest of the world considers status is generally unappealing to me.

I am not interested in forever trying to keep up with the Joneses.

[Kevmo]

I agree, well written article. Status is a zero sum game.