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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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  • Changing and re-making our free values is all about overcoming status anxiety !!!

  • "Theres nothing that we find in many of the characters of art that makes them inevitable objects of concern and even pity. If we do end up thinking of them as noble and dignified, it all has to do with the way theyre portrayed on the stage or on a page. Its the achievement of many artists to lend to people who could be described as losers, emotional compulsives, suicides, murderers, a level of sympathy thats owed but rarely paid to every human."

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  • How can we spread this doc, make it viral? Anyone have ideas? Message me!

  • @Sebasjeah

    Alain de Botton does another video

    Google : Philosophy guide to happiness, has all the stuff you need to live your life ; )

  • Ok...so let's obsess about death so we can stop obsessing about status.

  • @Sebasjeah

    ajahn brahm covers alot of buddhist philosophy

  • It's about touching others' lives. You point about work is valid IF that is what people truly strive toward in the modern world. It's mostly a motivation to gain a vast amount of wealth very quickly in order to show off. The after effects of the process is temporal not revolutionary. IF however you work your whole life toward changing some key aspect of human life that lasts long after you die, then I would say that you would have been truly succesful. Newton made calculus but died a virgin.

  • @quetadelune

    fart in public every day for a year.

  • there def should be more documentaries about philosophy does anyone know one?

  • noone loves you when your down and out

  • But why focus on relationships, given that the people you care about will soon die? If you focus on your work you may be doing something of more lasting importance.

  • does anyone know the sound starts from 00:35?

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