Status Anxiety
- winmaulidan_has quoted3 years ago
How are we affected by an absence of love? Why should being ignored drive us to a ‘rage and impotent despair’ beside which torture itself would be a relief? - winmaulidan_has quoted3 years ago2
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Edinburgh, 1759): ‘To what purpose is all the toil and bustle of this world? What is the end of avarice and ambition, of the pursuit of wealth, of power and pre-eminence? Is it to supply the necessities of nature? The wages of the meanest labourer can supply them. What then are the advan - winmaulidan_has quoted3 years agoSimilarly, philosophy does not deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. As successful insomniacs have long emphasized, it may be the anxious who best survive.
- winmaulidan_has quoted3 years agoThe rich man glories in his riches because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world. The poor man on the contrary is ashamed of his poverty. He feels that it places him out of the sight of mankind.
Orang kaya memuliakan kekayaannya karena dia merasa bahwa kekayaan itu secara alami menarik perhatian dunia kepadanya. Sebaliknya, orang miskin malu dengan kemiskinannya. Dia merasa bahwa hal itu menempatkannya di luar pandangan umat manusia.
- winmaulidan_has quoted3 years agoThose without status remain unseen, they are treated brusquely, their complexities are trampled upon and their identities ignored.
- winmaulidan_has quoted3 years agofrom failure will flow humiliation: a corroding awareness that we have been unable to convince the world of our value and are henceforth condemned to consider the successful with bitterness and ourselves with shame.
dari kegagalan akan mengalir penghinaan: kesadaran yang merusak bahwa kita tidak dapat meyakinkan dunia tentang nilai kita dan untuk selanjutnya dikutuk untuk menganggap sukses dengan kepahitan dan diri kita sendiri dengan rasa malu.
- Shasha Setiyadihas quoted3 years ago
Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare - Shasha Setiyadihas quoted3 years agodenying its offspring the layer of emotional bedding that would grant them the inner ease to imagine that low status (their own and that of others) does not neatly equate with unworthiness, nor high status with excellence.
- Shasha Setiyadihas quoted3 years agoIn a pattern common to all abusive behaviour, snobs generate snobs
- Shasha Setiyadihas quoted3 years agoBelittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing.
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