Status Anxiety - Part 3

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http://documentaryparadise.com 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. De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society. De Botton lays out the causes of and solutions to status anxiety as follows

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  • @Dodger718 They don't seem a bit tragic to you in relation to the commentary?

  • love the cutscenes of normal dumb, overweight America in between bouts of philosophy and psychology

  • 11:53 earl hickey having one day off from the list

  • Amazing doc. Alexis du Tocqueville seems like a genius ahead of his time. NEED to research him more

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