Status Anxiety Pt. 3 (3 of 6)

Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others.

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• philosophy

[edewasseige]

To abandon others opinions of our selves is very important, perhaps one of the best ways of overcoming status anxiety.

[tcmic44]

5:21

[broakland2]

@edewasseige: To abandon our opinions of our selves may be important to overcoming anxiety:)

[spikkiy]

@shipcomesin

...justify our use of it to our established ideas of right and wrong, of the morality in our thoughts and actions. For me, everything boils down to one question: "Will it help or will it hurt?" If it hurts, I refrain. If it helps, I act. However one must always have in mind that our perspective always begins from one dimension, and to see the situation as it truly is, we have to look outside of our perspective- not what I do is justified all the time despite what I think otherwise.

[spikkiy]

@shipcomesin

Egoism is only good enough for you to protect your well being and self. To go any further than that- to hurt people for the sake of one's ego that would be taking it to the extreme. Everything we have, we possess whether physically or mentally is in the end a tool to further our aims in life, we have the choice to use it extensively or not at all, to use it to harm or to help. In the end it boils down to our intention, whether the ends is worth the means or whether we can...

[1950redwing]

Lovely, just what I needed,

[InnocenceExperience]

Roman soldiers cautioning somebody about 'health and safety' is just comedy.

[InnocenceExperience]

Dogs like walking around with people. Lobsters belong in the water, not being dragged around the streets by a piece of ribbon.That's why its more ridiculous than a dog and why its a cruel way to make a stupid point. Bourgeois idea of pets? Commons sense idea of pets.

[windex1234]

Where were Arthur Schopenhauer "quotes" taken from? What book?

[torosalvajebcn]

That's animal cruelty, lobsters need to be in water to live , he was asfixiating the poor beast.

[MrRadaikon]

animals mark territory as a safety measure. Humans in the modern world do it to determine how they are different ( ie doing better) than others