Raul Moreno
English 100
Cerritos College
Post: 14

Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety speaks of what a society uses as a measure for an individual's worth,class, character and so on. In a nutshell, these subjects are the framework for the canons which any given society generally implements in determining their attitude and ideas towards another individual. These are the elements discussed: religion, physical appearance, gender, temperament, skills, accent, skin color, and ancestry. It also tells of the connection "we" as humans make between who has the biggest toys and what character traits we might subconsciously or consciously conclude the individual needed and/or carries to obtain such a treasure. Further in, we're encouraged to consider the vastness of the world and even the universe to with the purpose of dwarfing the social or status anxieties that trouble in this life.

I saw a lot of MSFM in this one as well as the book of Ecclesiastes found in the Bible. I think equally in congruence you'll also find some essence of AOTC in regards to why we focus on such finite and truly unsatisfying things as mentioned in (8).

I'll stop there so I've got something fresh for class discussion today. ;]

-Raul