What's your status?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Illing talks with writer Will Storr about his new book The Status Game, and its central idea: all human beings are constantly competing for status. They discuss how certain aspects of society "supercharge" our innate drive for status, how social media has hijacked these impulses, and the risks posed by the status game's most dangerous players. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox Guest: Will Storr (@wstorr), author and journalist References: The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr (Harper Collins UK; 2021) Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1755) Selfie: How the West became self-obsessed by Will Storr (Picador; 2018) "My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger" by Elliot Rodger (2014) Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by: Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.7	Are you obsessed with status?
1:06.9	I'm Sean Elling and I'm your host for Vox Conversations.
1:21.9	I'd love to tell you that I don't care about status, but that's a lie.
1:26.1	I do care about it.
1:27.6	I care about it even though I know I should.
1:30.9	When I publish an article or podcast or when I drop a half-clever tweet,
1:36.2	I still find myself waiting for that little pang on my phone.
1:40.4	I still get disappointed when something doesn't land the way I hoped it would,
1:44.9	as though it's not real unless it's validated somehow by the virtual masses.
1:50.2	And it's ridiculous. None of it matters. Not really.
1:55.2	I just read a book about all this and I can't stop thinking about it.
1:58.6	It's called the status game and the author is Will Store,
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