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Podcast: Waking Up with Sam Harris
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#294 — Status Games

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:40:27
Publish Date: 2022-08-31 16:24:17
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Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and philanthropy, and other topics.

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