#294 — Status Games
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and philanthropy, and other topics.
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| 0:46.6 | Today I'm speaking with Will Stor. |
| 0:49.6 | Will is an award-winning writer and his work has appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, |
| 0:55.9 | the New Yorker, and the New York Times. |
| 0:58.9 | He's the author of many books. |
| 1:00.9 | Most recently, the Status Game on social position and how we use it. |
| 1:06.6 | And that is largely the topic of today's conversation. |
| 1:09.8 | We talk about the role that status plays in human life and culture. |
| 1:14.1 | We discuss the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity |
| 1:21.8 | of status, how we play multiple status games, |
| 1:25.5 | not mutaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status urge as |
| 1:34.5 | an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequence of humiliation, the role |
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