Do You Have a Spiritual Sufficient Mind?

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In a bookabout onthikimori in japan, they found that people who specifically meditated scored very high on what they called spiritual superiority. Bae: That's human nature. We all know people who meditate. Ad ti ne greate,. you kn could look down their nose a little at us unwashed, who are unenlightened. Iti sai, so so so ye, that you know you cannot, you cannot escape it. As you said in your words, you know its source cold. You can't escape it, acause it's how we experience life.

In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worried about how politics, cults, conspiracy theories communities, social media, religious fundamentalism, polarization, and extremism are affecting us - everywhere, on and offline, across cultures, and across the world.

What is The Status Game? It’s our primate propensity to perpetually pursue points that will provide a higher level of regard among the people who can (if we provoked such a response) take those points away. And deeper still, it’s the propensity to, once we find a group of people who regularly give us those points, care about what they think more than just about anything else.

In the interview, we discuss our inescapable obsession with reputation and why we are deeply motivated to avoid losing this game through the fear of shame, ostracism, embarrassment, and humiliation while also deeply motivated to win this game by earning what will provide pride, fame, adoration, respect, and status.