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Book review: "Status and Culture", by W. David Marx

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A grand theory of why human beings do what we do

“The world needs wannabes/ So, hey, hey, do that brand-new thing” — The Offspring W. David Marx is someone I’ve always looked up to. In the 2000s and 2010s I was very into into Japanese underground culture, and David Marx (or “Marxy”, as he was sometimes known in those days) was the Western aficionado of Japanese underground culture. When he gave me the chance to write some guest posts for his old blog back in 2014 and 2015, I viewed it as a big break. David has graduated from being the king of the Japan hipsters, and is now an exec at a major tech company, handling their Asia-Pacific…

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