A rose by any other name....
In a great Washington Post article, Roxanne Roberts alerts us to the latest theory by philosopher Alain de Botton.
de Botton has posited a cause for the rude, narcissistic, greedy, hierarchy-obsessed, pigeonholing behavior of many of the denziens inside the Beltway. It is Status Anxiety, "an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser."
Oh, it's "Status Anxiety"? I just thought they were a-holes.
de Botton has posited a cause for the rude, narcissistic, greedy, hierarchy-obsessed, pigeonholing behavior of many of the denziens inside the Beltway. It is Status Anxiety, "an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser."
Oh, it's "Status Anxiety"? I just thought they were a-holes.
posted by The Malcontent at 2:47 PM
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