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The Status Game
- On Human Life and How to Play It
- Narrateur(s): Will Storr
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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What drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes how we behave, and misbehave, in a group? What makes you, you?
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In The Status Game, best-selling author Will Storr radically turns this thinking on its head by arguing that it is our irrepressible craving for status that ultimately defines who we are.
From the era of the hunter-gatherer to today, when we exist as workers in the globalised economy and citizens of online worlds, the need for status has been wired into us. A wealth of research shows that how much of it we possess dramatically affects not only our happiness and wellbeing but also our physical health—and without sufficient status, we become more ill, and live shorter lives. It’s an unconscious obsession that drives the best and worst of us: our innovation, arts and civilisation as well as our murders, wars and genocides. But why is status such an all-consuming prize? What happens if it’s taken away from us? And how can our unquenchable thirst for it explain cults, moral panics, conspiracy theories, the rise of social media and the ‘culture wars’ of today?
On a breathtaking journey through time and culture, The Status Game offers a sweeping rethink of human psychology that will change how you see others—and how you see yourself.
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"I haven’t finished reading The Status Game because I’ve only read it once. There's so much in this dazzling book I will be revisiting over and over again." (Daniel Finkelstein, author of Everything in Moderation)
"The Status Game could not be more timely and provides a missing piece for understanding where we are, and how to get out of this mess.... I can’t recommend it highly enough." (Greg Lukianoff, co-author with Jonathan Haidt of The Coddling of the American Mind)
"Thought provoking and enlightening—you’ll be discussing The Status Game everywhere you go." (Sara Pascoe)
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- Gabriel
- 2023-01-14
A paradigm shifting account of the human condition
I cannot recommend this book more highly to anyone who satisfies the following criteria:
1. You are a human being
2. You interact with other human beings
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- Gary moore
- 2024-03-03
Great insights
Amazing book. Great bits of psychology and history. I was completely sucked into this book the entire time.
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- Vladimir Druts
- 2024-01-15
Possibly the most important book of the century.
I haven't been this moved by a book in a long time, and I read and listen to a lot. I'd say next to Steven Pinkers The Blank Slate this is an absolute must read.
Not only is the subject, premise and examples used incredible well articulated, selected and enticing but it's written in a captivating way.
I did not want to stop.
The end? isn't a boring oh well these are the problems but I don't know how to fix them. Instead, the author does the difficult task of actually outlining plausible solutions.
it's sobering, real and balanced... and quite possibly the future of our species depends on the amount of people you can get to read it 😁
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- Matthew Willox
- 2022-10-07
I'm posting this review to sound smart
Striving to be good at [insert activity] is ultimately selfish because it'll raise your social status. This may be 'technically' correct, but it's an incredibly reductive and nihilistic epistemological framework to apply to human activity.
It's not all bad, but when it's bad, it's really bad.
The author reduces nearly every human action to a selfish act in a status game. This has the effect of equivocating donating to charity to selling your daughter into sexual slavery because both are acts conducted to pursue status within their respective 'games.' I wouldn't say the author attempts to justify this, but in an effort to maintain some distance from moral relativism, the author makes no effort to compare status games. Everyone is just selfish regardless of the outcome.
It might be true in some thought experiments in an anthropological context, but give me a break. It's the reductionist thinking that edgelords and first-year philosophy students use.
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- Jared Starling
- 2024-03-14
No Such Thing As Vaccine Injury?
Unfortunately the author decided to heavily insert bias opinion into this book, causing me to now question the research backing up his status game hypothesis.
Claiming that all vaccines are safe and don’t cause side effects is simply untrue. Claiming that anyone who questions the safety of vaccines is in a cult is one sided and irresponsible.
The author was unable to separate his Neo-Liberal support for big pharma and simply write this book from a neutral standpoint. It’s unfortunate he couldn’t control his virtue signalling, especially since mentioning the whole vaccine debate was not necessary to the hypothesis.
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