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Anyone who has ever worried about an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus should read Alain de Botton’s delightfully clear-headed new book right now. For inside its pages, a great explicator of our culture and its ills focuses on the unquenchable drive for status, a goal that has less to do with financial comfort and more to do with love. To prove his point, de Botton traverses Western history and thinking, from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie, Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins.
Status Anxiety is infallibly hilarious, whether it’s judging Christianity’s class consciousness or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing. And it is not just intelligent but also beneficial whether it considers the benefits of educated misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash.
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