Several months ago I got a copy of an interview with Will Storr (by Joe Rogan, who also referenced the interview Will Storr did with Triggernometry). Both interviews are about Mr. Storr’s recently published book “The Status Game”). With respect to whatever he refers to as “social media”, Mr.Storr says:
It’s a status gold rush: there are millions and millions of just ordinary people with oridinary lives who suddenly feel that they’re fighting the good fight against the forces of darkness …
https://www.triggerpod.co.uk [ spotify.com code: open.spotify.com/episode/5waMZ3DB1ntj51vE20onZr , ca. 22:27 – 22:35 ]
During Joe Rogan’s interview, Joe mentions something related to a privilege he points out quite often during his podcasts:
I think we’re conversation-starved. I think the way humans figure out what’s the best way to behave and what’s the nicest way that we can all get along, what makes the most sense, is when we talk the most. And most of the day, you can’t really talk. Most of the day, you can’t sit down for a couple hours — like this!
https://joerogan.com [ spotify.com code: open.spotify.com/episode/221RAH36sgmCCf1XwSzo14 , ca. 21:39 – 21:59 ]
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Contrast the above quote about an undifferentiated mass of homogeneous “ordinary” people with the following quote (Will Storr’s recommendations for future developments):
“On the individual level, [this] is what we should be trying to do: playing kind of this hierarchy of games, where you’ve got one main game (because competence is hard, so as we’ve been saying, you need something to focus on) but also hedging it so you haven’t got all your eggs in that one basket.”
[ Triggernometry, op.cit. 49:22 – 49:39]
I will be writing more about this contrast shortly (and I will post a link here 😉 ) …
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