Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles. And relative to conservatives, liberals care more about their outer circle folks. Status is a consensus measure of personal worth, and respect, shared by some community. And our status markers also seem to vary with these circles of concern; we respect differently in different circles. In this post, I want to illustrate this by trying to describe my personal circles and their differing status markers. I suspect this to be a neglected but valuable exercise. By telling the world directly what your community respects, you might induce them to change what they respect, or to join your community. ….[READ]
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