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Storr is a brilliant author of such books as The Heretics, The Science of Storytelling, Selfie and The Status Game. He explains how we try to be dominant, successful or virtuous to gain status within our tribes. #status #heretics #virtuesignalling

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Chapters:
0:00 Will Storr Highlights
0:30 Pursuing Status
3:15 Success Changes Lives
4:30 The Gift of Prestige
8:00 Virtue is Woke Status Play
9:50 Have We Lost ‘Dominance’?
11:30 Being Canceled
13:55 Delicate Sensitivity Readers
15:30 Aggressive Virtue Signalling
18:30 Why They Still Sell J.K. Rowling & Jordan Peterson!
21:15 Woke Is Like The Soviet Union
23:00 The West’s Meritocracy Idea
24:55 We’re Obsessed With Fairness
27:56 Hitler Rose…Speaking English!? (Joe Rogan)
32:30 What His Speeches Were Actually About
35:10 A Communist (Post-Soviet) Mindset
37:30 The Myth That Anyone Can Succeed
39:30 Labels As Excuses For Not Succeeding
42:30 Advice For Your Own Status Game
45:00 A Heretic Will Admires
48:30 George Monbiot Running From A Tropical Bee