There is nowhere where I've witnessed (and felt) more status anxiety expressed and talked about than in Lesswrong
I'd think that people on Lesswrong have relatively little status anxiety, and talk about it because it didn't come naturally as they were growing up, but now see the use and power of it. Most people automatically fight for status, while we are relative pacifists, and didn't even notice the bullets whizzing by our ears for most of our lives.
Yeah, good point!
Status pacifists is a very good descriptive name for the status immersion I see here.
Pacifists talk about war much more than your average person, that doesn't make them bellicose.
Alain de Botton speaks about Status Anxiety
There is nowhere where I've witnessed (and felt) more status anxiety expressed and talked about than in Lesswrong. I tried to partly dispel the mith at least as it regards sexuality.
People talk about status in all its forms and shapes a lot here. Which made me wonder, what do you think of Alain de Botton's opinions on "status addiction" in western societies?