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Status Anxiety Pt. 1 (5 of 5)
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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.
Duration : 0:9:57
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16 Comments
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Not sure that he …
Not sure that he followed the Socratic principles he spoke so well of in his other work. What if those people value money because it comforts them to think that one day they can care for loved ones? It’s not clear that absolutely everyone who values money does so for purely selfish reasons. Even if they do, perhaps it says more about our inability to determine what actually makes us happy and less about the ‘American system’ that imposes this behaviour on us. His argument needs more work
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Sad sad sad! How …
Sad sad sad! How lost this pastor is. Alain de Botton is doing a great job!
Let’s all wake up!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
How can we explain …
How can we explain to this people, that money doesn’t exist?
A ideia, artificial, not real, not natural.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I think that pastor …
I think that pastor we’ll have to rethink his philosophy and interpretations of Christianity and economic success. Religion has been a “business” for a very long time, and it will continue that way so long as there are people who wish to use it and God for their own success.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
when he talked …
when he talked about self esteem = success/expectation in a previous part, it was very interesting. I think it is people like the pastor that are raising the expectation to unreasonable levels.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
the first part was …
the first part was great thanks s3nn5!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Heh… I really …
Heh… I really liked the pastor’s logic (from about 2:35-2:59) where he talks about Jesus’ richness yet how he was poor, and how that means that we as poor people need to become rich.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Props for having …
Props for having the foresight to intelligently defend Christian faith in the face of today’s climate, rather than simply dismiss it as crap. Very human explanation as to the guts of why people find virtue a humbling faith.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
that american …
that american pastor is an idiot. totally contradictory.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
a white brother! …
a white brother! lol!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
they are already …
they are already out, just type “epicurus”
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
So that we can be …
So that we can be rich on earth? LOL
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Great presentation: …
Great presentation: these kinds of docu’s are informative as well as personally engaging and helpful for looking within oneself. thank you.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Thanks for posting …
Thanks for posting de Botton’s Status Anxiety. I hope you plan to post more from De Botton, e.g., The Consolations of Philosophy.
thanks again,
Tom
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I’m really glad you …
I’m really glad you enjoyed it, some of his insights can really be life-changing if taken to heart. I’ll be posting the other two parts of this series soon.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Excellent videos.
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Excellent videos.
Thanks to Alain de Boton for explaning the concept of Status Anxiety so clearly.
For many of us, social phobia has its main cause on status anxiety. Thanks again.