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Status anxiety is a 21st century phenomenon which is a result of capitalism, democracy, and an ostensibly egalitarian society, and is prevalent in. I really like that alain never presumes to do the thinking for you. The concept is first placed in historical, cultural, and philosophical context. The book generally aligns with mimetic theory and girardian ideas. Moral confusion and materialism are two different sides of the same coin and we only learn to reorient ourselves as we mature. We all suffer to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment from status anxiety. A users manual, will be released by pantheon books in february of 2014. In its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to. Augustine to andrew carnegie and machiavelli to anthony robbins.
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