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241 - The Status Game - Will Storr

You Are Not So Smart

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How to Become a Virtue Signaller in a Perfect Storm Moment

Social media is like a slop machine for status. Everything you put on social media, you don't t e going to get back. You might end up with a kind of internationally vl mem and the bottom y being cancelled af losing everything. It feels like something created by an alien entity that studied us and said, ah, this will be great. O, whatch this? I'll put them in the situation. And then now you really have something new. This werer in a dangerous hall of mirrrs, infinite recursion theme,. because telling people that complaining about virtue signalling is itself virtue signalling, is itself Virtue signalling. That becomes now it's doubly easy and

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