Status

I've been thinking a lot, last night, about how status and status anxiety and insecurity is the source of so many of our problems of equity in the culture. The money doesn't do enough good after a certain amount to warrant obsession with it. The fame is as much a disadvantage as an advantage much of the time.

But the status is what drives too many of us. Including academics who both have one of the highest status positions in most cultures and which, in liberal democratic cultures, pride themselves, the most, of being more equitable and less status obsessed.

The truth is that status drives much of what happens in academics. And, hence, where many of the problems in our culture derive.

I have much more to say about this. I have an IEP to finish up:).

Ben