✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading
Status and the Illusion of Progress
moretothat.com · 1,262 words · saved by 1 readers
The pursuit of status is the antithesis of knowing yourself.
Status and the Illusion of Progress Archive ↓ Best Posts All Posts Recent Posts Newsletter Book Courses ↓ Thinking In Stories The Examined Writer Reflections Status and the Illusion of Progress By Lawrence Yeo I’ve written many times about the great disease of status. If I were to trace back our worst impulses and decisions to its origin point, what you would ultimately find is a huge vial of this deadly poison. The desire for status and the subsequent move to categorize humanity is what breeds greed, envy, narcissism, and pretty much any variant of those unpleasant things. With that said, the
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- Pursue Mastery, Not Statusmoretothat.com
- The Status Trapevery.to
- We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
- Do We Ever Feel Like We Have Enough?markmanson.net
- What's stopping you?gleech.org
- Who Wants to Play the Status Game? | The Point Magazinethepointmag.com
- Hypertext as Literaturehypertext.joodaloop.com
- Roots of Progress Instituterootsofprogress.org
- The Game You Don’t Need to Playmoretothat.com
- Religion for the Nonreligious — Wait But Whywaitbutwhy.com
- Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWronglesswrong.com
- i can do more more more - by Claire Wang - cold brew blogclairebookworm.substack.com