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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?
The Next Big Idea
The New Right and the New Left in America
I was fascinated by your comment that actually what we see is disagreements between the new right and the new left in America about how the status game is rigged. I think both of those sides sincerely believe the world like that, even though the reality is far more complicated than either of those kind of simplistic stories would have you believe. So talking before about how we experience life as a story and the story that we experience is the one that flatters our own beliefs and our sense of status and heroism. And so that does feel like a pretty important core insight. And also I think we see the dangers of the virtue game on both sides of the political aisle. Right.
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