
The Answer is Always Status
The Political Orphanage
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The Status Deficit of Violence
I was quite taken in the book. You talk about Roger Elliott, a mass shooter who's a low status male and thinks he ought to be at the top. Would you attribute a lot of the crazy stuff going on in our society right now to status mismatch? Absolutely. And so much of violence is literally about status. It's about turning a sense of shame, alienation and humiliation into pride.
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