I like this YouTube channel so much I am including another video that only tangentially related to this topic. It is a great reminder that many of our choices are half chance and you shouldn't be too hard on yourself when you make a mistake. Do people of different classes have varying attitudes toward this? Are they taught to think different things about mistakes from a young age?
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Status Anxiety
I like this YouTube channel so much I am including another video that only tangentially related to this topic. It is a great reminder that many of our choices are half chance and you shouldn't be too hard on yourself when you make a mistake. Do people of different classes have varying attitudes toward this? Are they taught to think different things about mistakes from a young age?
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Alain de Botton is an interesting case study himself, being (I think) a scion of the privileged class in his home country who has chosen to examine life through a broader and more sympathetic lens.
ReplyDeleteAlso interesting, though possibly peripheral to your project: he's clearly an astute philosopher, but he's chosen not to enter the ranks of professional academia. Many of us in those ranks are envious of the privilege that permits some to opt out of a profession whose emphasis on a strained variety of narrow research scholarship is anathema. Class is an issue in the academy too, and I suppose in every microcosmic field of endeavor.