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May 21Liked by John Samson

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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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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