I had no idea this was the classic knock on de Botton but now I can’t unthink it.
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Status Anxiety (Alain de Botton)
The classic knock on de Botton is that he uses very nice prose and bibliography to compensate for facile and unfocused writing and I didn’t really mind it when it was just “architecture is nice!” or “traveling is fun!” but boy does it show here.
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