268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worried about how politics, cults, conspiracy theories communities, social media, religious fundamentalism, polarization, and extremism are affecting us - everywhere, on and offline, across cultures, and across the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.9	Episode 268.
0:45.8	The kind of human behaviors that are associated with humiliation, not just extraordinary, everything
0:50.2	from spree-killing to oner-killing to serial murder, to terrorism, whether it's the unabominable
0:56.8	or Islamic terrorism, all the way up to genocide, humiliation is indicated in all of those
1:01.4	behaviors.
1:02.4	And that was the moment that convinced me when I started doing all this reading about
1:05.6	humiliation in one research, of course, humiliation, and nuclear bomb of the emotions.
1:13.6	That is the voice of best-selling author, journalist, science writer Will Store, whose
1:20.0	new book is titled The Status Game.
1:23.8	And Will Store is one of the greatest science writers working today, full stop.
1:28.9	But I won't stop.
1:29.9	I love his work.
1:30.9	I love his prose.
1:31.9	I love his insights in the venn diagram of our obsessions massively overlaps.
1:37.2	Will is also a great friend, in fact, while writing how minds change, I often bounced
1:42.7	ideas off of Will and sent him a chapter to get some feedback, which he did provide that
1:48.6	feedback.
1:49.6	He did not say great job.
1:50.8	He pointed out all the ways I could improve it, and all the things I ought to take out
1:54.5	or communicate in another way, or simpler way, or just not at all.
1:58.9	So I was very happy to get a chance to invite Will back on the show.
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