Status Signaling
understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation
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Status Signaling
Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.io
The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence
David Cayley • 3 highlights
amazon.com
While I was thinking through the cringe matrix, I thought a lot about celebrities. Given one of their main purposes as public figures is to both establish and violate social norms, thus providing us with both guidance and gossip, they’re always operating with a high cringe risk.
Role of celebrities is to establish & push norms, to be the focus of public debate & discussion. In social media world, everyone kinda is this.