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J Scott's avatar

Great reflection. Status is a strange thing in the U.S. Setting.

You have it, or you don't. It can be cultivated, but is a slow process.

My career (which when I was fallen I felt was all due to me) was of course derived from my fortune of being born in relative comfort and status. Being able to retain the status, even with out pure economics, is another aspect of status.

Now I have become an expression of my clan's greater *nobolesse oblige* which is healthy to accept.

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John Samson's avatar

Absolutely. I commented elsewhere that the beast programming is palpable in my reluctance to discuss status indicators - even ones that are relevant to topic and my own personal experience. No one likes unearned arrogance, but hiding from reality is how this house of lies got built.

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Codex redux's avatar

Perhaps later, it will come up. We have observed that A groups without barriers to D are routinely subverted.

"[A-limited groypscare] self-selecting and policed. In real life, this includes all the formalities, rituals, discourses, styles, structures & other visual markers that determine fitness & inclusion [... snipped to link ideas] "There are limitations in my station, morals, location, personality, and so forth that make some circles inaccessible, no matter how well understood."

Then, the note that for the non-Gamma.

"Places that aren’t accessible usually aren’t desirable."

Unless one can force the group to change the rules, and become higher-D.

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