Man V Mob

The Chains of Status and Reputation


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Luke starts off talking about how kombucha and gigs got his foot in the door of content creation. We then talk self-deprecation, insecurity, and the regret of not taking chances on creative endeavors. We cringe at the rise of meta-entrepreneurship, independent wealth gurus and scammers. Luke mentions how hard so many people try to be normal and how unnatural transactional interactions feel. We talk Mark Manson, being magnetically authentic, the 1950s lie, choosing your suffering and money as a byproduct of accomplishment and legacy rather than as its own end. We delve into how our boredom and embarrassment lead us, gentrification, protest fever and polarization cycles. Luke and I close with modern masculinity, fraternities, men and women, sex and biology, stereotyping, us v them, wealth inequality, cultural relativism and creeping nonjudgmentalism.

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