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.
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.
I think in my case, and I wonder in how many others, I was being bombed and didn’t even know it. Didn’t understand it. Didn’t get it.
Didn’t connect the damage done to me or others with a benefit to the attacker. They were just a bomb throwing dick.