Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and philanthropy, and other topics.
Will Storr is an award-winning writer. He’s the author of six critically acclaimed books, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Science of Storytelling. His journalism has appeared in titles such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His work on sexual violence against men earned the Amnesty International Award and a One World Press Award.
Website: willstorr.com
Twitter: @wstorr
Released: August 31, 2022
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Mike Park
07.09.2022Please do a podcast with Joscha Bach 👍
Dov Twersky
06.09.2022Like always full of knowledge thanks Sam and I can't wait for the next one.
PhysicsPolice
06.09.20229:30 "They're not monsters, they're people who've made a mistake." — False dichotomy. You can be worthy of the label "monster" for having made just a single, sufficiently serious mistake.
TheCommonS3Nse
06.09.2022This reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s concept of atomization and how it leads to totalitarianism. People need to act in the world and be judged on that action in order to develop their own self concept. If people lose their ability to be recognized for their actions, they become “atomized”. People then seek out groups of like minded people and they conform to that group, because they don’t want to lose that connection. Those groups coalesce to form political entities and you get totalitarian regimes.
That can easily be seen as people desperately seeking status groups and subordinating their reason in order to belong to a status group. I think this is definitely playing a major role in our current cultural issues.
Boogie Van
06.09.2022Sam never passes up a chance to deride decent people who have reasonable cause to recognize Trump as someone who serves legitimately good purposes. Reflects poorly on Sam as a rational intellect.
Joe
06.09.2022I don't care if Sam has a basement full of dead children, I will listen to his message and sign up to his podcast.
Please Clap
06.09.2022"Before I can get to the end of this sentence, some few chlidren will have died in terror and agony." – Sam Harris 2011.
And apparently that's A-Ok with Sam, so long as the person doing it isn't orange.
Ron W
06.09.2022I was just thinking it would be great if Sam had Will Storr on.
YawnGod
06.09.2022This video should be retitled, "Stasi: the logic of snitching on your neighbor".
Jaron Talotta
06.09.202215 dollars a month just seems a bit outrageous.
That's more than any streaming service, even their premium options.
Charles Barkley
06.09.2022Hunter Biden could have kids locked in his basement and I wouldn’t care…
Sam Harrishob976
05.09.2022Spoiler: It doesn't come up.
Jeremy Baker
05.09.2022I thought Sam Harris was an intelligent man, but then I hear he says Trump is worse then Bin Laden. WTF is Sam Harris smoking? Sam Harris is a libtard demorat?
Arkerstater
05.09.2022I wish you would fly the jihad express straight into the sun. Just too quick for you, which you do not deserve
Oratorical Prowess
05.09.2022unsubscribed. what you said about censoring evil done by democrats was inexcusable. your politics are shit. stick to atheism and psychedelics. buh bye forever Harris. Hitchens would be shaking his head in disbelief.
Thaigrr Viles
05.09.2022#Deranged … “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement; I would not have cared… Trump University as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop” – Sam Harris
Daniel Hopkins
05.09.2022I've always said this dud Sam the Sham is an egotistical aristocrat and people are waking up to his sense of fair play
シュルブッシュッシュ氏
05.09.2022this one was a great listen sam
Y M
05.09.2022WARNING: Sam Harris is a fascist!
Sihle Hadebe
05.09.2022I wish this could’ve been atleast an hour long here on YouTube
Sterling Gafford
05.09.2022Harris is only good anymore for falling asleep to.
everybodylovesdevin
04.09.2022"I wonder why smart people believe in crazy things?" – Sam (No Self-Reflection) Harris
Richard Beyer
04.09.2022He has a real fascination with Alex Jones lately
jaye see
04.09.2022'Every time one of my friends succeeds, a little part of me dies.'
Gore Vidal.
John Wilkinson
04.09.2022funny that sam releases a podcast on status right as gad saad and the internet seems to have decided that he has absolutely none at all 😂
Owen Grant
04.09.2022@Sam Harris have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V4wdyg65LU&ab_channel=AmericanThoughtLeaders-TheEpochTimes This Jew just singled you out as an example of what is evil and bad in humanity for not thinking and believing what he believes and it is clear that he is pandering to his cult and his sheep the Christians. The most racist ideologies to ever exist comes from the Abrahamic religions and the worst of all time is the worst of these religions and you know who i am talking about, the way these people think they are chosen and how evil the rest of us are and there religious obligations dictating to them to eradicate all none believers in there end time which is now, to erase the memory of Amalek which these people have chosen to be white people or Esau. The more you learn about their religion the more like the straw-manned Nazis they seem like. germans were guilty only of taking control of their destiny and caring about their people above all else which is completely fine for Jews but not for the rest of us.
Brian Collins
04.09.202223:58 Everyone that disagrees with Sam on Trump is 'low status'. Copium overdose.
Odie
04.09.2022Sam is just a fountain of bad faith now. In a public shaming, there are always going to be people dancing on your grave for dishonorable reasons. Forget about them. What about those of us who once listened to this podcast faithfully? And the people who used to pay subscriptions to you? Not even enough respect for us to hear our concerns? Sam did the same thing with Covid and the vaccines. Sam is a dishonorable worm on practically every issue of consequence now.
Juan Uchiha08
04.09.2022Excelente Sam Harris
William Vorkosigan
04.09.2022Is this the week we get no Trump Derangement Syndrome? Oh dear. Apparently not.
Dino Van Hammer
04.09.202224:35 Is Sam talking about Gad Saad here?
Zorgcho
03.09.2022What about the children corpses in the basement?
Tim Deadmen
03.09.2022Status > Staytoos
Khaim Gulkovich
03.09.2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_rank_theory
Khaim Gulkovich
03.09.2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankism
Jason R
03.09.2022✝️ Repent and believe in the gospel ✝️
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Hebrews 9:27-28 NKJV
The gospel of Jesus Christ
✝️
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
I Corinthians 15:3-4 nkjv
Adronias
03.09.2022It's status not status, jesus!
Khaim Gulkovich
03.09.20221.
We are domesticated primates with verbal self-consciousness installed on them.
2.
By trying to "help" ours and/or fellow primates we are building the Hell on the Earth.
Will Ashland
03.09.2022"… but I think it was warranted."
Famous last words. An authoritarian posing as a liberal. So disappointed in you, Sam.
bruce schneider
03.09.2022Self proclaimed genius, Harris, is a cancer to American society. Thank God we all just laugh at him . 😂🤣😂
Con Con
03.09.2022Yo Sam, children corpses in basements though?
Chris Bean
02.09.2022Hey Sam I think what marks was saying with private property was more That the bourgeoisie Would take all the property and simply Rent it out To the workers It was a matter of jealousy Kyle like BlackRock is doing right now when they're buying up all the property they can for rental properties and cutting the people out by offering cash So if father that shouldn't be private property because we would use that law to take land away from other people we did that to the American Indians As well Also the private property of a factory that something that gets moved to China leaving all the people that worked in the factory Jobless Again property rights
Feralbam1
02.09.2022Flee to the holocaust when being criticized.
GrandWizard
02.09.2022Fresh air, exercise and community engagement fixes Trump Derangement Syndrome…….. Bin Ladin was wayyyyy worse than Trump BTW 😂
L
02.09.2022Fully Subscribed and still listening.
UFC STARS
02.09.2022David Irving was the recognized as the worlds leading and most important historian on WW2. All of his work was 100% original done through his decades of researching US, UK, Soviet & German/Third Reich archives and discovering original documents of historical importance.
David Irving never denied the Holocaust but he did prove the numbers were massively overblown. It was Irving's research that forced Auschwitz to change their big plaque which once claimed 6 million Jews were killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers to every visitor for nearly 60 years…but today that same sign/plaque has now been officially changed to read 900k Jews were killed here. David Irving was crucified much like, Charles Murray was crucified.
For the record, I'm an Israel supporter and an admirer of the Jewish people in general…so any claims of me being antisemitic just know that you're very wrong.
Irving is a first class, second to none WW2 historian. He's a man only concerned with the truth…he even came out several years ago with some revisionism of his own work even though he knew he'd lose a huge portion of his following. But as Irving says, he will only go were the archives, documents & evidence take him. The truth is the truth no matter who doesn't like it.
RykoJames
02.09.2022Sam Harris: “I don’t care if you have the skeletons of dead children in your home… Trump is more evil because he created a shitty university”
My name is Sam Harris… I passionately hate religion but am so blinded by an ideology that I say things like THAT with a straight face.
joeymchavarti
02.09.2022no the proper analogy is if Eric trump was selling his father's influence with his father's blessing to enrich his family, would sam be OK with that.
The dead children remark was just peak tds the actual controversy is that sam is so low intelligence he would accept outright treason if it meant someone who hurt his feelings didn't win an election.
Mr Donnald Trump
02.09.2022If you want to continue listening to this conversation you'll need to contribute to the Sam Harris statues fund 😉
tacticangel
02.09.2022Cancelled my sub. Hope you come around to the light, but it is not reasonable to think killing children is ok. Much love as always.